In 1916 58
In 1917 50
In 1918 67
In the year of grace, 1919 83
In 1920 65
In 1921 64
In 1922 60
In 1923 28
In the year of especial grace,
1924 16
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People furnished these figures. Accompanying them was a paragraph from the report of the House Committee on the Judiciary (68th Congress—i. e., the present):
"Lynchings, according to the reports reaching the public, have been decreasing in the last four or five years. Some would have us believe that this is due...
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