The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-01-06
Arkansas Riot Victims Case Carried
Before U. S. Supreme Court

The American nation is reused to
the horror and danger of lynching
mobism as it has never been before,
according to the 1922 annual report
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, 70
Fifth avenue, New York, of which
the following summary was made
public today:
In the South
In the South, where ten years ago
only few solitary individuals dared
oppose lynchings and where the crime
was commonly condoned by infuen-
tial newspapers, public officials, and
ministers of the gospel, there is now
widespread opposition to mob muir
der. The opponents of lynching now
include such powerful organs as the
Atlanta Constitution, the Greensboro
IN. CO. Daily News, the Macon (Ga.)
Telegraph, the Houston (Texas)
Post, and the San Antonio (Texas)
Express. Powerful groups of white
women in Georgia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Alabama, Virginia,
Tennessee and Texas have publicly
repudiated the lynching mob as a
"protector of womanhood." and such
courageous men as the Rev. DR.. M.
Ashby-Jones of Atlanta, Governor
M. Parker of Louisiana and ex-Gov-
ernor Hugh M. Dorsey of Georgia
have gone before the country as op-
posing the mob.
The Campaign Against Lynching
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
eight years ago, began q concentrate
ed campaign against lynching by the
raising of an anti-lynching fund of
$4,000. Since then, by public meet
ings addressed in all parts of the
country, by pamphlet publications,
newspaper publicity, personal inves-
LEGATIONS of lynchings and published
reports of the investigators. The
facts have been placed before the en-
tire civilized world and gradually a
public sentiment has been formed
which is demanding the abolition of
"The Shame of America" This work
has been accomplished at a total ex-
penditure of some $4,000 in ten
years.
The Anti-Lynehing Advertisement
The full and half-page ADVERTISE
ments setting forth the facts about
lynching in daily newspapers were
placed in a dozen leading dailies of
the country at an expenditure of
Sc. 9SO.93.
The money spent for this advertis-
ing was contributed for the specific
purpose by the Anti-Lynching Cru
saders, the American Fund for Pub
lie Service, and number Of indi-
viduals. The advertisement was in
tended to put the essential facts
about lynching before the greatest
number Of American citizens posi-
BILE and to correct some Of the false
ideas about the causes of lynching.
Reached 100000 People
The combined circulation of the
publications in which the advertise
ment appeared was more than
100000. It is estimated that up
wards of 100000 people were
reached by the Advancement Associa-
tons advertising.
AS an instance of the profound i'm
preston created by this ADVERTISE
ment we quote the following para
graph from an editorial in the San
Francisco Call of December 2, the
leading daily of the state of Califor-
mia and one of the most influential
newspapers of the far West:
"The most amazing advertisement
ever paid for and printed in any
newspaper is now appearing in news
papers of the East. It was paid for
ny the Anti-Lynching Crusaders on
behalf of the National Association for
the Advancement of the Colored Peo-
pie. Part of it is reproduced in this
column. without being paid for, be-
cause the advertisement is not trying
to sell anything but pity and mercy