Report of John R. Shillady, Secretary, to the Anti-Lynching Committee

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Title:
Report of John R. Shillady, Secretary, to the Anti-Lynching Committee
Description:
Accounting the events related to lynchings during September 1918; includes locations in Georgia and Texas. Reported by John R. Shillady for the NAACP Anti-Lynching Committee. Includes notes on investigations in Brooks and Lowndes counties in Georgia, Ben Hur (Tex.), Louisiana, the Camp Merritt race riot, incidents in Oklahoma, President Wilson's lynching and mob violence pronouncement, memorandum to the members of the Executive Committee of the American Bar Association, San Antonio express lynching reward fund, Philadelphia Race riots, President Storey's address to the Wisconsin Bar Association, examination of newspapers in the southern states and publicity. This is a typescript copy of the report.
Creator:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Date:
October 14, 1918
Format:
Manuscripts
Genre:
Reports
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 012 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
W. E. B. Du Bois Papers
Series:
Series 1. Correspondence
Subjects:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--Committees
Lynching--Law and legislation--Georgia
Places:
Georgia
Extent:
1 p.
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b012-i483
Terms of Use:
All rights for this document are held by the David Graham Du Bois Trust. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
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Place of origin:
New York (N.Y.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
mums312-b012-i483