Box L.26

Scope and Contents Group contains coverage of specific lynching and attempted lynching cases, including the incidents themselves, investigations and trials of participants, and editorials regarding specific cases. Most coverage is contemporary to the incident; where coverage references past incidents it is noted in the scope and content note for the folder. Lynching victims have been listed for each location, along with the specific location and year of the incident. Locations typically were transcribed from...

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Folder contains three unidentified photographs of unnamed victims and crime scenes. One photograph is by G. Marshall Wilson, an AFRO photographer based in Philadelphia.

Scope and Contents Named lynching victims include Viola Ayer, Esau Robertson, John Robertson, Jacob Robertson, Tom Robertson (Emelle, 1930), John Williams (Hainesville, 1931), Thomas Jasper (Huntsville, 1931), Oscar Livingston (Pont-a-la-Rache, 1931), Dan Pippen and A.T. Harden (Tuscaloosa, 1933), George Taylor (Birmingham, 1934), Wes Johnson (Abbeville, 1937), Sam Holly (Carbon Hill, 1939), Jesse Thornton (Luverne, 1940), Elmore Bolling (Lowndesboro, 1947), William Turner (1948), Robert Mallard (1948), and...

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Named lynching victim is Jack Heath, killed in 1884, reported on in 1941.

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Named lynching victims are Judge Powell (Louisville, 1926), John Carter (Little Rock, 1927), Owen Fleming (Helena, 1927), Frank Tucker (Crossett, 1932), and Willie Kees (Lepanto, 1936). Survivor of attempted lynching covered is John Henry Riney (Arkansas City, 1941).

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Named lynching victims are Thomas H. Thurmond and John M. Holmes (San Jose, 1933), and C.L. Johnson (Yreka, 1935).

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Coverage of lynching threats made to Harry Butler (Georgetown, 1926) and William H. Fields (Seaford, 1941).

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Named lynching victim is Robert Scott (1941). Report of mob seeking Lloyd Newman of Accokeek, MD in D.C. in 1933.