The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1921-11-05
10 YEAR BATTLE
ON LYNCH|NG
.NEARs END


With the Dyer. Anti-Lynching Bill
before Congress, and public sentiment
daily becoming more insistent that
this measure be passed by Congress,
the National Association for the
Advancement Of Colored People today
published a resume OF its ten years
of struggle for federal law to end
lynching
In its ten years of work, from 1911
to 1921, the National Association has
raised and spent some $4,000 iii its
anti-lypching campaign. The intro
duction of anti-lynching bills in both
houses of Congress and the favorable
reports of the House Judiciary Com
mittee in the Doth and 9th Con
crosses we're the direct results of the
Associations endeavors.
The most important statistical study
of lynching ever published in the
United States, Thirty Years Of
Lynching," was compiled by the As
sociation and distributed broadcast
throughout the country. Literature
on lynching has not only been sent to
every important white and colored
newspaper IN the United States bur
to many foreign newspapers of in
fluence as we'll. As part of the AS
sociation's anti-lynching fight, more
than FOUR MILLION copies of The
Crisis have been sent to every state in
the union and TO every part OF the
world
Hundreds of press releases have
been sent to newspapers and have
been extensively printed, kilograms
of nrotect at ,,,ab ,,,urdc- ba,,o haa,
addressed to state governors, more
than 1000 public meetings were held
at which more than THREE MIL
LION people were given the facts
about lynching In the United States.
Constant contact has been main
tanned with members of Congress in
Washington and Senators and Repre-
sentatiyes have been furnished with
facts and statistics upon which they
could base their proposed legislation.
Representatives of the Association
have appeared at all the hearings be-
fore Congressional committees on
lynching and brief was furnished
members of Congress, setting forth
the essential facts concerning lynching
in the United States.
Under the leadership Oh the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment OF Colored People a meeting was
held in New York City, in 1919, to
which call was issued by l20 lead
ing citizens of the country. They in
cluded five governors, four ex-govern-
ors, members of Congress, judges OF
the higher courts, members OF the
Presidents cabinet and other promi-
.nent men and women. Following this
meeting an Address to the Nation"
was issued, demanding a federal law
against lynching, the address being
signed by most of those who had is
sued the call to the conference.
Meanwhile, publics,,s n m en-
throughout the United States. by
means of personal Investigations OF
lynchings, made by members of the
Associations staff. Through the press
and public meetings, has been formed
to such an extent that nowhere does
anyone dare to openly defend lynch
ing. Only recently white women in
Georgia and Alabama have denounced
the lynching spirit. and denunciations
have come from the most powerful
OF Southern newspapers.
The National Associations investi-
cations OF lynchings made on the spot
have done much to bring the facts
to light. No other agency in the
United States has been able to inyes-
tigate lynchings as has the National
Association for the Advancement OF
Colored People whose representatives
have frequently risked their lives in
order that the facts might be made
known.
After ten years Of unremitting Ell
fort, the National Association for the
Advancement OF Colored People is
confident that if public opinion will
rally to the support of the Dyer Bill
il can at last be enacted into law,
thus GROWING the long and arduous
efforts made to obtain this legislation