- Title
- Lynching Record for 1919 (1920)
- Description
-
In April 1919, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People published a pamphlet documenting lynchings committed in the U.S. between the years 1889-1918, calling them "the common shame of all Americans." After its publication, the NAACP continued to publish supplements for each year until 1939.
This supplement for the year 1919 reported 83 known lynchings, 77 of which were committed against Black men and women. Of this number, 10 were U.S. soldiers returning from service after World War I. The patriotic service of Black men provoked racist white people in their communities, worsening existing labor tensions between white and Black workers. The perceived threat of communist-inspired revolution during this post-war era (the First Red Scare) coupled with Black American's challenge to the social order in advocating for racial equality led to widespread incidents of racialized violence in a period referred to as the Red Summer. Of the 83 lynchings in 1919, 50 took place between the riot in Jenkins County, Georgia, in April and the massacre in Elaine, Arkansas, in October.
This document contains graphic descriptions of racial violence. - Date
- 1919
- Temporal Coverage
- Jim Crow Era
- Exclusion Era
- Allotment and Assimilation Era
- Progressive Era
- Long Civil Rights Movement
- World War I
- Spatial Coverage
- United States
- Document Type
- Fact Sheet
- Document Category
- Primary Source
- Archival Source
- JWJ Zan N213 919Ta, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
- Bibliographic Citation
- Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1918. Supplement: 1919. New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1919.
- Digital Repository
- Yale Library Digital Collections
- Item sets
- Red Scares
- Title
- Lynching Record for 1919 (1920)
- Description
-
In April 1919, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People published a pamphlet documenting lynchings committed in the U.S. between the years 1889-1918, calling them "the common shame of all Americans." After its publication, the NAACP continued to publish supplements for each year until 1939.
This supplement for the year 1919 reported 83 known lynchings, 77 of which were committed against Black men and women. Of this number, 10 were U.S. soldiers returning from service after World War I. The patriotic service of Black men provoked racist white people in their communities, worsening existing labor tensions between white and Black workers. The perceived threat of communist-inspired revolution during this post-war era (the First Red Scare) coupled with Black American's challenge to the social order in advocating for racial equality led to widespread incidents of racialized violence in a period referred to as the Red Summer. Of the 83 lynchings in 1919, 50 took place between the riot in Jenkins County, Georgia, in April and the massacre in Elaine, Arkansas, in October.
This document contains graphic descriptions of racial violence. - Date
- 1919
- Temporal Coverage
- Jim Crow Era
- Exclusion Era
- Allotment and Assimilation Era
- Progressive Era
- Long Civil Rights Movement
- World War I
- Spatial Coverage
- United States
- Document Type
- Fact Sheet
- Document Category
- Primary Source
- Archival Source
- JWJ Zan N213 919Ta, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
- Bibliographic Citation
- Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1918. Supplement: 1919. New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1919.
- Digital Repository
- Yale Library Digital Collections
- Item sets
- Red Scares