Category Archives: Jim Crow Era to the Great Depression: Racial Intimidation and Violence

Bill Text: Calling on the Secretary of War for information in regard to soldiers under sentence for participation in the Houston riot., 1921

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

News article on the Springfield riot, 1908

Editorial on the Atlanta Massacre, 1906

National Archive Folders: Casefile on the Tulsa Massacre regarding Federal Surveillance of Black Americans, 1921

House and Senate Reports: Claims growing out of Houston, Texas, riot, 1924

House and Senate Reports: Claims growing out of Houston, Texas, riot, 1925

News editorial on the Atlanta Massacre, 1906

Text of NAACP pamphlet that describes reasons to support passage of the Wagner-Van Nuys antilynching bill, 1937

Documents from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Library: Acknowledgment of letter concerning presidential support for the Costigan-Wagner Bill, the president’s desire to focus Congress on other legislation, and the assurance that the president is still in support of antilynching efforts, 1936

Documents from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Library: Provides statement on issues of concern to African Americans, including lynching problem; discrimination in relief and public works, the postal service, and civil service; white-only primaries; and discrimination in the army and navy, 1936

Documents from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Library: Transmittal of article alleging Roosevelt’s approval of lynching due to his failure to publicly support the Wagner-Costigan antilynching bill, 1936

Documents from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Library: Transmittal of NAACP weekly press release, 1936

Documents from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Library: Analysis of salient features of NAACP proposed antilynching bill, 1937

Documents from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Library: Progress in formulating an antilynching bill that will meet constitutional tests and transmits a Justice Department memorandum assessing the NAACP proposed antilynching bill, reviewing distinctions between the present bill and previous antilynching bills, and examining the constitutional basis for the statute, with a review of relevant case law, 1937

Documents from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Library: Transmittal of compilation of NAACP press releases on the anti-lynching bill, 1937

Documents from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Library: Comments on and arguments in favor of NAACP proposal to permit Senator Robert Wagner to suspend debate on the antilynching bill and to set a day certain to resume debate on the bill in April, in light of the bill’s filibuster and danger that the bill would be dead if displaced as unfinished business, 1938

Documents from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Library: The progress of the Costigan-Wagner antilynching bill, impediments to passage of bill from southern politicians, necessity for Congress to remain in session to review and approve the bill, and the possible lynching backlash if the bill does not pass, 1934

Documents from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Library: Resolution of anti-lynching legislation in Cleveland, Ohio, 1934

Documents from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Library: Request for suitable date for delegation to meet with president in Washington, D.C., to discuss Wagner- Costigan antilynching bill and to present him with a memorial urging federal action against lynching, 1934

Editorial on the events leading up to the Atlanta Massacre, 1906

Editorial on the Atlanta Massacre, 1906

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

House and Senate Reports: Information on soldiers’ riot at Houston, Texas, August 23, 1917, 1921

News article on arrests made for the lynchings during the Atlanta Massacre, 1906

National Archive Records: Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on lynching in 1948 and 1918, proposed antilynching legislation, statistical data on lynching, and antilynching legislation and black troops, from files of assistant attorney general W. Wilson White, 1918-1950, 1918-1950

Article by Booker T. Washington, 1912

National Archives Folder: East St. Louis Riot of 1917: People v. LeRoy Bundy, March 1919-December 21, 1920, 1920

National Archives Folder: East St. Louis Riot of 1917: Petition of the Citizens of East St. Louis, 1919

News article on the Atlanta Massacre, 1906

News article on the Springfield riot, 1908

News article on the Houston Riot, 1917

News article on the leader of the Springfield Riot being acquitted, 1908

Editorial from a white man that accuses African Americans of being a “criminal class”, 1906

News article on the Houston Riot, 1917

Essay on the Tulsa Massacre written by Walter White, 1921

News article on the trials after the Springfield Riot, 1908

News article on the Houston Riot, 1917

News article on the Tulsa Massacre, 1921

Text of pamphlet summarizing results of studies of lynchings across United States between 1931 and 1935, 1936

News article on the Springfield riot, 1908

News article on troops withdrawing from Springfield after the riots, 1908

Article on mobs and lynching in The Crisis by Walter White, 1918

News article: Report on the Atlanta Massacre written by a black man who witnessed the events, 1906

News editorial on the Springfield riot, 1908

News article on the Tulsa Massacre, 1921

Text of pamphlet that provides an overview of the nationwide lynching problem, with listings by state, 1935

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

National Archives Folder on East St. Louis Riot, 1917, hearings, 1917

Text of the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill: A Bill for the better assurance of the protection of persons from mob violence and lynching, 1937