(CIVIL RIGHTS LYNCHING) COMMISSION ON INTERRACIAL COOPERATI

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(CIVIL RIGHTS--LYNCHING.) COMMISSION ON INTERRACIAL COOPERATION. Depression Intensifies the Race Problem. 20 pages. 4to, original; printed stiff gray wrappers, lettered in red; faint vertical crease suggesting this might have once been folded for mailing. [together with] a typed letter signed from robert russa moton, chairman of the commission. New York: Stabilization Fund of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1930's

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The Commission on Interracial Cooperation was primarily a group of liberal Southerners who came together in 1931 after a series of violent confrontations and lynchings. The message of this pamphlet is that the conditions of the Great Depression are exacerbating the violence against blacks: "Within the last two months, five Negro bellhops have been taken from a Florida hotel to a desolate country road. Hands rope-bound, bodies stripped, they were flogged with limbs torn from nearby hickory trees and told by their white assailants not to return to their jobs under threat of death." Such was the atmosphere of the beginning of the 1930's. Within a year, the Scottsboro Boys and the arrest of Angelo Herndon would become national news. rare. only one copy located by oclc.