The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

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The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if...

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if...

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and...

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and...

I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training...

I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training...

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its...

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its...

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the...

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the...

The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.

The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.

Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the...

Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the...

The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop...

The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop...

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there...

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there...

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders...

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders...

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women...

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women...

The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had...

The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had...

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights...

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights...

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the...

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the...

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter...

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter...

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same...

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same...

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the...

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the...

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it...

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it...

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare...

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare...