Lynching Enumeration Sirs:
I note in TIME for Oct. 6 that you list the lynching of Willie Kirkland, on Sept. 25 at Thomasville, Ga., as the sixteenth lynching of 1930.
According to our records, copy of which is enclosed, this lynching was the twenty-first of the year. Since Kirkland was lynched there have been two additional ones—Lacy Mitchell, on Sept. 27, also at Thomasville, Ga., shot to death by a masked and robed band for testifying against two white men who were charged with rape upon a colored woman; and on Oct.1, John Willie Clark was lynched at Cartersville, Ga., charged with the murder of the Chief of Police.
The Cartersville, Ga., lynching makes the twenty-third authenticated lynching of the year.
There are five additional cases of which investigation has not yet been completed. . . .
This recrudescence in lynching, which has taken eleven victims more than were killed during all of 1929, is, we are certain you will agree, an appalling one. We trust that TIME, with its usual careful attention to details, will make such inquiry as it wishes into the facts. . . .
WALTER WHITE Acting Secretary
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
New York City
The N. A. A. C. P. list:
Name Date Place Manner of Lynching
Name Date Place Manner of Lynching
1. Jimmy Irvine (Levine) Feb. 1 Ocilla, Ga. Beaten to death
2. J. H. Wilkins Apr. 5 Locust Grove, Ga. Beaten to death 3. Dave Harris Apr. 23 Gunnison, Miss. Shot
4. Allen Green Apr. 24 Walhalla, S. C. Shot
5. John Hodaz (white) Apr. 27 Plant City, Fla. Hanged &Shot
6. George Hughes May 9 Sherman, Tex. Burned (in jail)
7. George Johnson May 16 Honey Grove, Tex. Shot (body burned)
8. Henry Argo May 31 Chickasha, Okla. Shot
9. Bill Roan June 18 Bryan, Tex. Shot
10. Dan Jenkins June 21 Union, S. C. Shot
11. Jack Robertson June 28 Round Rock, Tex. Shot
12. Esau Robertson July 4 Emelle, Ala. Hanged
13. S. S. Mincey July 22 Mount Vernon, Ga. Beaten to death
14. Thomas Shipp Aug. 7 Marion, Ind. Hanged &Shot
15. Abraham Smith Aug.7 Marion, Ind. Hanged & Shot
16. Oliver Moore Aug. 19 Tarboro, N.C. Hanged & Shot