62 items found
Tags: lynching
Title Identifier Creator To Date Numeric Type Subject
35 Lynched In US In Past 6 MonthsTI00252AWashington Post1918 June 3019180630TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00252A
Creator:Washington Post
Date:1918 June 30
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Washington Post article reporting on number of lynchings in U.S.
AB Whitby et. al. (Colored Citizens of the City and State of Oklahoma) to Woodrow WilsonTI00127Whitby, A. B.Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-19241917 December 1819171218TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00127
Creator:Whitby, A. B.
To:Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Date:1917 December 18
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Requesting Wilson use his position to help end lynching and other forms of discrimination in the U.S.
Andy Dawson to Woodrow WilsonTI00137Dawson, Andy1918 June 2919180629TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00137
Creator:Dawson, Andy
Date:1918 June 29
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Call for lynching to be made a federal crime.
Archibald H. Grimke to Woodrow WilsonTI00252Grimké, Archibald Henry, 1849-19301918 July 119180701TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00252
Creator:Grimké, Archibald Henry, 1849-1930
Date:1918 July 1
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:The District of Columbia branch of the NAACP requests that the President speak out against lynching.
Arthur A. Schomburg (Free Accepted Masons) to Woodrow WilsonTI00152Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938.1919 June 619190606TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00152
Creator:Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938.
Date:1919 June 6
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Resolutions against lynching.
Assistant Attorney General LaRue Brown to Mrs. Eva B. DavisTI00249dBrown, LaRue, 1883-19691918 June 2719180627TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00249d
Creator:Brown, LaRue, 1883-1969
Date:1918 June 27
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Explaining that a Supreme Court case prevents the Department of Justice from taking any action in the matter of lynching and mob violence.
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer to Henry Allen BoydL122619APalmer, A. Mitchell (Alexander Mitchell), 1872-19361919 December 2919191229TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:L122619A
Creator:Palmer, A. Mitchell (Alexander Mitchell), 1872-1936
Date:1919 December 29
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:President has no power to stay execution of African Americans in Arkansas race riots.
CH James to Woodrow WilsonTI00142James, Charles Howell1918 July 419180704TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00142
Creator:James, Charles Howell
Date:1918 July 4
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Asking the President to denounce lynching at every opportunity.
Charles M. Williams to Woodrow WilsonTI00253Williams, Charles M.Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-19241918 November 2119181121TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00253
Creator:Williams, Charles M.
To:Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Date:1918 November 21
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Requesting the President to intervene to put an end to mob violence.
Citizen of Wabash, Arkansas to Uncle SamL112119Unknown1919 November 1419191114TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:L112119
Creator:Unknown
Date:1919 November 14
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Woman writing to say that men are being taken away and lynched.
Citizens Committee of Stamford to Woodrow WilsonTI00157Citizens Committee of Stamford1919 July 3019190730TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00157
Creator:Citizens Committee of Stamford
Date:1919 July 30
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Asking President to exercise his authority to enforce the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution and stamp out lynching.
CJ Johnson to Woodrow WilsonTI00158Johnson, C.J.1919 October 719191007TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00158
Creator:Johnson, C.J.
Date:1919 October 7
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Letter to Wilson regarding the lynching of 3 Montgomery, AL prisoners.
Claude R. Porter to Charles M. Williams TI00253dPorter, Claude R.Williams, Charles M.1918 November 2919181129TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00253d
Creator:Porter, Claude R.
To:Williams, Charles M.
Date:1918 November 29
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Replying that the federal government has no jurisdiction over the killing of African Americans by a mob in Winston-Salem, NC.
Colored Federated Clubs of Augusta to Woodrow WilsonTI00131Harper, Mrs. J. S.1918 May 2919180529TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00131
Creator:Harper, Mrs. J. S.
Date:1918 May 29
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Letter referencing the lynching of Mary Turner and asking the President to punish the perpetrators and prevent similar occurrences.
Columbia, SC to Woodrow WilsonTI00151Unknown1918 November 2119181121TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00151
Creator:Unknown
Date:1918 November 21
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Lynchings in Georgia, Alabama, and North Carolina
Congressional Investigation of LynchingTI00154Shillady, John R., 1875-1943.Testimony1919 July 1019190710TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00154
Creator:Shillady, John R., 1875-1943.
To:Testimony
Date:1919 July 10
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Statement of John R. Shillady, Secretary of the NAACP asking for a congressional investigation of lynching.
DL Gore to Woodrow WilsonTI00129Gore, D. L. (Daniel Lenox), 1847-1918 May 2319180523TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00129
Creator:Gore, D. L. (Daniel Lenox), 1847-
Date:1918 May 23
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Wholesale grocer in N.C. requests the President's assistance regarding lynching.
Ernest Knaebel to JB WinstonLO31315cKnaebel, ErnestWinston, J. B.1915 March 1819150318TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:LO31315c
Creator:Knaebel, Ernest
To:Winston, J. B.
Date:1915 March 18
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Acknowledging the receipt of Winston's letter regarding lynchings of African-Americans, the Assistant Attorney General advises him that the federal government does not have jurisdiction over these crimes.
Five Dead in Lynching BeeTI00253cUnknown1918 November 1819181118TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00253c
Creator:Unknown
Date:1918 November 18
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Newspaper clipping about a mob that attempted to break into a jail in Winston Salem, N.C. in order to lynch a prisoner.
Florence Randolph and Lizzie Pearce to Woodrow Wilson.LO81219Randolph, Florence.Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-19241919 August 1219190812TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:LO81219
Creator:Randolph, Florence.
To:Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Date:1919 August 12
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Requesting President use his influence to obtain fair and just treatment "for the race of which we are a part" after recent race riots.
Four Open Letters from the University Commission on Race Questions to the College Men of the SouthA120119Doster, J. J., et. al.1916 January 519160105TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:A120119
Creator:Doster, J. J., et. al.
Date:1916 January 5
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Anti-lynching pamphlet produced by the University Commission on Race Questions
Francis H. Warren to Woodrow WilsonL061813Warren, Francis H.Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-19241913 June 1819130618TextLynching
Identifier:L061813
Creator:Warren, Francis H.
To:Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Date:1913 June 18
Subject:Lynching
Description:Letter to President Woodrow Wilson from Francis H. Warren of the Detroit branch of NAACP asking the President to assist in ending lynchings in the US.
Henry Allen Boyd to Woodrow WilsonL122619Boyd, Henry Allen, 1876-1959.Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-19241919 December 2619191226TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:L122619
Creator:Boyd, Henry Allen, 1876-1959.
To:Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Date:1919 December 26
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Urging President to stay the execution of African Americans in Arkansas race riots.
Henry F. Downing to Woodrow WilsonTI00257aDowning, Henry Francis, 1846-1928Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-19241920 June 2119200621TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00257a
Creator:Downing, Henry Francis, 1846-1928
To:Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Date:1920 June 21
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Writing in regards to Chicago Race riots
J. Francis Robinson Field to Woodrow WilsonTI00130Field, J. Francis Robinson1918 May 2819180528TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00130
Creator:Field, J. Francis Robinson
Date:1918 May 28
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Recounting heroism of African American soldiers in France and requesting assistance regarding lynchings in the US.
James E. Shepard to Woodrow WilsonLO12317Shepard, James E. 1917 January 2319170123TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:LO12317
Creator:Shepard, James E.
Date:1917 January 23
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Asking the President to make a plea for law and order in all sections of the country in response to growing number of lynchings in the south.
James Rudolph Little to Woodrow WilsonTI00163Little, James RudolphWilson, Woodrow, 1856-19241919 November 2619191126TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00163
Creator:Little, James Rudolph
To:Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Date:1919 November 26
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Writing in regard to 11 men being sentenced to death in riots in Phillip County, Arkansas.
James Weldon Johnson to Woodrow WilsonTI00160Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938.1919 November 1419191114TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00160
Creator:Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938.
Date:1919 November 14
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Writing in regards to the execution of African Americans in Arkansas race riots.
JB Winston to Woodrow WilsonLO31315a-bWinston, J. B.Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-19241915 March 1319150313TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:LO31315a-b
Creator:Winston, J. B.
To:Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Date:1915 March 13
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Asking for Wilson to denounce the lynchings being carried out against African-Americans.
JE Hoover to Robert P. StewartTI00159Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-19721919 November 719191107TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00159
Creator:Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972
Date:1919 November 7
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Writing in regards to making a report on the race riots in Arkansas.
JG Jack to George W. WickershamL031312bJack, JGWickersham, George W. (George Woodward), 1858-19361912 March 1119120312TextLynching
Identifier:L031312b
Creator:Jack, JG
To:Wickersham, George W. (George Woodward), 1858-1936
Date:1912 March 11
Subject:Lynching
Description:Letter to the Attorney General of the US suggest the views of African Americans can be obtained from the Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
John F. Monroe to Woodrow WilsonT1001025Monroe, John F.1916 December 1319161213TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:T1001025
Creator:Monroe, John F.
Date:1916 December 13
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Requesting Wilson's assistance in addressing lynching and civil rights.
John Lord O'Brian to Lee S. OvermanTI00148O'Brian, John Lord, 1874-19731918 August 719180807TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00148
Creator:O'Brian, John Lord, 1874-1973
Date:1918 August 7
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Requesting publication of the President's recent speech on mob violence so it might be distributed throughout the country.
John Lord O'Brian to Lee S. OvermanLO81918AO'Brian, John Lord, 1874-19731918 August 2119180821TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:LO81918A
Creator:O'Brian, John Lord, 1874-1973
Date:1918 August 21
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Enclosing Official Bulletin from July 26, 1918 containing the President's statement on mob action.
Joseph H. Stewart to Woodrow WilsonTI00141Stewart, Joseph H.1918 July 319180703TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00141
Creator:Stewart, Joseph H.
Date:1918 July 3
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:The President of the Washington, D.C. branch of the Equal Rights League writes in response to a lynching in Madil, Oklahoma.
Journal of the Senate Petition Requesting Investigation Into Recent Race Riots.R101419Journal of the Senate1919 October 2219191022TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:R101419
Creator:Journal of the Senate
Date:1919 October 22
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Petition by a church in West Virginia for an investigation into the recent race riots in the U.S.
Journal of the Senate Petitions for Investigation Into Recent Race Riots.R100719Journal of the Senate.1919 October 719191007TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:R100719
Creator:Journal of the Senate.
Date:1919 October 7
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Journal of the Senate listing petitions asking for an investigation into the recent race riots in the U.S.
Lee S. Overman to John Lord O'BrianLO81918Overman, Lee S. (Lee Slater), 1854-19301918 August 1919180819TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:LO81918
Creator:Overman, Lee S. (Lee Slater), 1854-1930
Date:1918 August 19
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Requesting a copy of the President's address "on sanity and patriotism" so he can print it as a public document.
Louis G. Gregory to Woodrow WilsonLO11517Gregory, Louis G.1917 January 1519170115TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:LO11517
Creator:Gregory, Louis G.
Date:1917 January 15
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Requesting that Wilson speak out against lynching and urge equal enforcement of the laws in his inaugural address.
Lynching: A National Menace: The White South's Protest Against LynchingA081119Gregg, James E.1919 August 1119190811TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:A081119
Creator:Gregg, James E.
Date:1919 August 11
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Pamphlet by Principle of the Hampton Institute regarding lynching in the US
M. Cravath Simpson to Woodrow WilsonTI00150Simpson, Maud Cravath1918 November 1219181112TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00150
Creator:Simpson, Maud Cravath
Date:1918 November 12
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Appeal for lynching to be made a federal crime.
Max Eastman to Woodrow WilsonLN31418Eastman, Max, 1883-19691918 March 919180309TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:LN31418
Creator:Eastman, Max, 1883-1969
Date:1918 March 9
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Requesting that the President use the force of moral opinion to help stop lynching.
Memorandum re: Convention of Black EditorsTI00136[Scott, Emmett J. (Emmett Jay), 1873-1957]1918 June 2019180620TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00136
Creator:[Scott, Emmett J. (Emmett Jay), 1873-1957]
Date:1918 June 20
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Memo that came out of the convention of African American editors asking for an end to lynching, and listing other grievances.
Mrs. BV Leach to Woodrow WilsonTI00244Leach, Mrs. B. V.1917 December 2619171226TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00244
Creator:Leach, Mrs. B. V.
Date:1917 December 26
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:African American citizens request the president enact a law to stop mob attacks.
Nick Chiles to A. Mitchell PalmerTI00161Chiles, NickPalmer, A. Mitchell (Alexander Mitchell), 1872-19361919 November 1819191118TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00161
Creator:Chiles, Nick
To:Palmer, A. Mitchell (Alexander Mitchell), 1872-1936
Date:1919 November 18
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Writing in regards to the execution of African Americans in Arkansas race riots
OM Skinner to Woodrow WilsonTI00255Skinner, O. M.Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-19241919 July 2419190724TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00255
Creator:Skinner, O. M.
To:Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Date:1919 July 24
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Asking the President for help with mob violence, segregation, and lynching.
PJ Bryant, et. al. to Attorney General Thomas W. GregoryL030518Bryant, P. J.1918 March 519180305TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:L030518
Creator:Bryant, P. J.
Date:1918 March 5
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Writing to the Attorney General of the U.S. asking that he help stop lynching in the U.S.
President Denounces Mob Violence in Appeal to His Fellow Countrymen to Keep Nation's Fame UntarnishedTI00144Wilson, Woodrow1918 July 2619180726TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00144
Creator:Wilson, Woodrow
Date:1918 July 26
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Official Bulletin with text of speech by Woodrow Wilson denouncing mob violence.
Rebecca Stiles Taylor, et. al. to Woodrow WilsonLO53118Taylor, Rebecca Stiles1918 May 3119180531TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:LO53118
Creator:Taylor, Rebecca Stiles
Date:1918 May 31
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Regarding the lynching of Mary Turner in Valdosta, Ga.
Resolution on Race Riots and Lynchings.R092219Journal of the Senate.1919 September 2219190922TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:R092219
Creator:Journal of the Senate.
Date:1919 September 22
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Proceedings of the US Senate regarding a proposed investigation of lynchings and race riots.
Robert P. Stewart to OM SkinnerTI00255AStewart, Robert Prescott, 1825-1894.1919 August 219190802TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00255A
Creator:Stewart, Robert Prescott, 1825-1894.
Date:1919 August 2
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Informing Skinner that the subject of mob violence which he raised in a letter to the President falls within the jurisdiction of the states.
Theodore Hawkins to Woodrow WilsonTI00256Hawkins, Theodore1919 December 2019191220TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00256
Creator:Hawkins, Theodore
Date:1919 December 20
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Requesting help to stop lynching.
WA Ritter to Woodrow WilsonTI00146Ritter, W. A.1918 July 2619180726TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00146
Creator:Ritter, W. A.
Date:1918 July 26
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:President of League of American Patriots of Henry County believes they prevented possible pro-German mob violence.
Walter W. Paris, William King, JD Dobbs to Woodrow WilsonTI00254Paris, Walter W. 1919 January 2619190126TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00254
Creator:Paris, Walter W.
Date:1919 January 26
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Committee of the First Congregational Church of Atlanta asks that lynching be made a federal crime.
War Mother to Woodrow WilsonTI00156Unknown1919 August 419190804TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00156
Creator:Unknown
Date:1919 August 4
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:A war mother writes to Woodrow Wilson about soldiers who were killed by police when they returned home.
What Is Disloyalty?TI00143The Christian Recorder, R. R. Wright, Jr., Editor and Manager1918 July 1119180711TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00143
Creator:The Christian Recorder, R. R. Wright, Jr., Editor and Manager
Date:1918 July 11
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Newspaper article asking if it is disloyal to protest against lynching, segregation, etc. and asking President Wilson to "do some great deed."
William L. Frierson to James Rudolph LittleTI00163AFrierson, William L.1919 December 419191204TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00163A
Creator:Frierson, William L.
Date:1919 December 4
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:The matter he wrote about is under investigation by Department of Justice.
William M. Randolph to Woodrow WilsonTI00138Randolph, William M.
1918 June 2919180629TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00138
Creator:Randolph, William M.
Date:1918 June 29
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Pittsburgh branch of the NAACP asks Willson to speak out against lynching.
William Pickens to Woodrow WilsonTI00162aPickens, William, 1881-1954.1919 November 2619191126TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00162a
Creator:Pickens, William, 1881-1954.
Date:1919 November 26
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Writing to ask Congress to investigate the race riots in Helena, Arkansas.
William W. Sanders to Woodrow WilsonTI001039Sanders, William W.1918 July 219180702TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI001039
Creator:Sanders, William W.
Date:1918 July 2
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Asking Wilson to speak out against lynching in his July 4th address.
Woman's Home Missionary Society to Woodrow WilsonTI00249Davis, Eva B.1918 June 1019180610TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:TI00249
Creator:Davis, Eva B.
Date:1918 June 10
Subject:African-Americans--segregation
Description:Requesting that the same protection given to whites by law and trial be given to African Americans of the South.
WR Harr to JG JackL031312aHarr, WRJack, JG1912 March 1319120313TextAfrican-Americans--segregation
Identifier:L031312a
Creator:Harr, WR
To:Jack, JG
Date:1912 March 13
Subject:African-Americans--segregation