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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) LYNCHING. The Story of a Lynching, an Exploration of Southern Psychology. Little Blue Book No. 1260. Illustration from a photograph of a lynched Negro man. 61 pages, 16mo, original stiff grey wrappers. Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, 1927
a rare little booklet from the haldeman-julius company, noted publishers of socially conscious political material. This booklet chronicles a lynching in Arkansas, then the fourth in lynchings in the nation. Georgia was first, Mississippi second, and Texas third. Since 1900 (26 years), 245 Negroes were lynched in Arkansas, including women. A great deal of research and reporting went into these 61 pages.
