A MAN WAS LYNCHED YESTERDAY #1049

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Caption from poster__
 
 

 

lynchings Crusade

 “ The Shame of America,”


At it's headquarters on Fifth Avenue

 in New York City, the NAACP flew a

 flag that read “A Man Was Lynched

 Yesterday.” to  report lynching, until

 1938, the threat of losing its lease

 forced the association to

 discontinue the practice.

 

  Established by the NAACP in 1916 to develop an effective

program to stamp out lynching, the Anti-lynching Committee

developed legislative and public awareness campaigns. In 1919

the NAACP published Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States,

1889-1918. This report indicated that 3,224 people were lynched

in the thirty-year period. Of these, 702 were white and 2,522 black

. Among the justifications given for the lynchings were petty offenses

such as "using offensive language, refusal to give up land, illicit distilling."


 
The Committee also compiled lynching statistics in 1921. It took full-page
advertisements on November 23, 1922, in The New York Times, The 
Atlanta Constitution, and several other leading newspapers entitled "The
Shame of  America," with the subheading "3436 People Lynched 1889 to 
1922." Attempts were made to pass a federal anti-lynching by Senators 
Robert F. Wagner and Edward P. Costigan.  The Costigan-Wagner bill 
would have required local authorities to protect prisoners from lynch mobs. 
The proposed bill, which would have made lynching a federal crime rather 
than a state crime, was blocked by a filibuster to prevent a vote. Although
lynching never became a federal crime, the song “Strange Fruit” and the
“A Man Was Lynched Yesterday” flags made it nearly impossible for 
Americans and politicians to ignore this form of domestic terrorism.
On June 13, 2005, the UnitedStates Senate formally apologized for its 
failure to enact a federal anti-lynching law.  The Resolution expresses 
"the deepest sympathies and most solemn regrets of the Senate to the 
descendants of victims of lynching, the ancestors of whom were deprived 
of life, human dignity and the constitutional protections accorded all 
citizens of the United States."

 

 

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