Mar 30, 2017 - Sale 2441

Sale 2441 - Lot 238

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) LYNCHING. Group of seven items relating to the problem of lynching in the U. S. Lynching, America's National Disgrace, by James Weldon Johnson (1924); The Mob Still Rides, Commission on Interracial Cooperation (1933); Southern White Women on Lynching and Mob Violence (ca 1930's); H.R. 164. A Bill to Assure Persons within the Jurisdiction of Every State the Equal Protection of the Laws (1937); House Report 1597 Mob Violence and Lynching (1948); `Lynchings and What They Mean (1929); Feeling is Tense. Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching (1938); We the People of the United States Address This Petition for a Federal Anti-Lynching Law, broadside/petition (ca 1938). condition generally very good, should be seen. Vp, 1924-1948

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A valuable prime resource for the study of how the crime of lynching was not being addressed by the government, local, state or federal. It was not for lack of energy on the part of the NAACP and other groups, with a few stalwart members of Congress like Leonidas Dyer (Dyer Bill 1922) trying to get legislation past the House. The number of lynchings between 1882, when the first records began to be kept and 1938 when the NAACP sent out the 'We The People' petition, was a staggering 5123, with 1454 of the victims white, and 3669 of them black.