Box L.26

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Named lynching victim is Joseph Kawahawai (Honolulu). Includes a letter from Kansas Congressman James G. Strong to George B. Murphy, Jr.

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Named lynching victim is James E. Person, killed near Terre Haute, Ind. Includes photograph of men accused of killing James Person, tried in Danville, Ill.

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Named lynching victims are Thomas Shipp and Abe Smith (Marion, 1930)

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Coverage of the attempted lynching of Judge C.C. Bradley.

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Named lynching victim is Richard Read (Atwood, 1932). Named attempted lynching victim is George Miller (Osawatomie, 1947).

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Named victim is Leonard Woods (Whitesburg, 1937). Also includes coverage of protection from mob by National Guard of Edward Harris while on trial in Lexington in 1926. An unsigned note is found related to the Woods case.

Scope and Contents Includes an undated article by AFRO reporter Ralph Matthews, Sr. on the 1894 Navassa Island case in which Isaac Kemp was lynched in Somerset County. File also incudes clippings on the attempted lynchings of Edward Jett (Baltimore, 1926), and Andrew Holland (Annapolis, 1929), photographs and clippings reporting on the attempted lynching of Arthur Collick and George Selby (Snow Hill, 1940), and reporting on the attemed lynchings of Gus White (Prince Frederick, 1942) and Otis Simmons and Arthur...

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Clippings report on lynching victims Matthew Williams (Salisbury, 1931) and George Armwood (Princess Anne, 1933), and the attempted lynching of Euel Lee, aka Orphan Jones (Snow Hill, 1931). Clippings cover arrests, lynchings, investigations, trials, appeals, and legal precedent set during Euel Lee case. Because the incidents and their aftermath overlapped in time, many articles reference more than one case.

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Letters to the AFRO and to Carl Murphy concerning lynching cases in Maryland.