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17. George Grant Sept. 8 Darien,Ga. Shot
18. Pig Lockett Sept. 10 Scooba, Miss. Hanged
19. Holly Hite Sept. 10 Scooba, Miss. Hanged
20. M. C. Whitley Sept.12 Rhyne, Ga. Shot
21. William Kirkland Sept. 25 Thomasville, Ga. Hanged
22. Lacy Mitchell Sept. 27 Thomasville, Ga. Shot
23. John Willie Clark Oct. 1 Cartersville, Ga. Hanged
Of the above 23 listed by N. A. A. C. P., TIME recognizes 18 as lynchings. Beginning with Willie Kirkland as TIME'S sixteenth, John Willie Clark made seventeen (TIME, Oct. 13) and Bill Roan (No. 9 on above list) must be added, making 18. Bill Roan, accused of rape of a white woman, was seized and shot by what newsmen first reported as a sheriff's posse. Later investigation showed that the killers had not been legally deputized, were therefore lynchers.
N. A. A. C. P. is no doubt conservative. TIME is more conservative. In enumerating lynchings TIME differentiates between premeditated mob murders in which the Law is cowed, and spontaneous racial murders by individuals which, as crimes of passion, approximate any ordinary murder elsewhere. The five cases which TIME does not include in its strictly-lynching list are:
J. H. Wilkins (No. 2), Pullman porter, was found dead near the railroad track between Atlanta & Macon. Obviously he had been removed from his train, murdered, but evidence of a lynching mob was lacking.
Jack Robertson (No.11) quarreled with a white man over wages, shot him. White spectators shot Robertson down in his tracks as he was trying to escape.
S. S. Mincey (No. 13), local G. O. Politician, was kidnaped, beaten by a masked mob. He died the next day from concussion of the brain.
M. C. Whitley (No. 20) is unknown at Rhyne, Ga. On the day before at Rhine, Ga., a mob seized M. C. Wylie, accused of rape, shot him thrice, failed to kill him. He is now recovering in jail at Eastman, Ga.
Lacy Mitchell (No. 22) was a witness against two white men accused of raping a Negro woman. He was shot to death by four men, friends of the two defendants, who were arrested, charged with his murder.
Tuskegee Institute to date lists 21 lynchings. Of those listed by N. A. A.C.P., omits Nos. 2 & 20 (see above).
—Ed.
Guilty Dummies Sirs: As a TIME subscriber, and a cover-to-cover reader, I want to enter protest against the last paragraph of your interesting and vivid report and description of the goodwill tour of 1,000 businessmen, 20 mi. at sea off Norfolk, Va., which appeared in your issue of Sept. 22, p. 41.