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Notes on Lynching in the United States, Compiled
from The Crisis.
Illustrated from photographs. 16 pages, 8vo, original printed self-wrap-
pers, stapled.
New York: Crisis Magazine, 1912
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Crisis Magazine, in addition to articles on the arts, education and the general progress of the Race,
would routinely report on the issue of lynching and other Jim Crow-related incidents throughout the
country. This compilation comes from Crisis’s record keeping on lynching dating from 1885 until
1912. The figures are staggering. In 1892 and 1893 there were 155 and 154 reported lynchings
each year. The study cites a few of the alleged causes for some of the lynching, and reproduces images
of some of the lynchings. A very scarce publication.
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The Lynchings of May, 1918 in Brooks and
Lowndes Counties, Georgia. An Investigation made and published by the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
8 pages 8vo, origi-
nal printed wrappers, stapled. New York: Crisis Magazine, September 1918
[800/1,200]
The Brooks-Lowndes lynchings (also known as the Lynching Rampage of 1918) were a series of
Georgia lynchings in which at least 13, and as many as 18 people were murdered in retaliation for
the murder of white planter Hampton Smith and the wounding of his wife. Among the lynched was
Mary Turner and her unborn child, whose gruesome murder became a cause célèbre for anti-lynching
activists.
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