Box L.27

Scope and Contents Lynching files contain reporting, research, and other documentation of lynching, primarily in the United States. Reporting on specific incidents contemporary to the time is found between 1926 and 1960, mainly in the form of clippings, full newspaper pages, and photographs. Some writings, notes, and correspondence pertaining to specific cases are also found. Files on lynching cases contain coverage of the incidents and their aftermath, such as investigations, trials, and public debate....

Scope and Contents Group contains coverage of specific lynching and attempted lynching cases, including the incidents themselves, investigations and trials of participants, and editorials regarding specific cases. Most coverage is contemporary to the incident; where coverage references past incidents it is noted in the scope and content note for the folder. Lynching victims have been listed for each location, along with the specific location and year of the incident. Locations typically were transcribed from...

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Named lynching victims are Will Sherod (Braggadocia, 1927), Ocie Williams (Slater, 1928), and Raymond Gunn (Maryville, 1931)

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Named lynching victim is Will Brown (Omaha, 1919).

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Named lynching victim is Santiago Platero (Albuquerque)

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Three cases of crime suspects threatened by mobs in New York City are compared to lynching, including Lloyd Price (1933), Harry Hampton (1933), and Harry Hein (1936).

Scope and Contents Photograph depicts white men of Roxboro, NC involved in 1941 attempted lynching of Cy Winstead. Named lynching victims include Thomas Bradshaw (Bailey, 1927), Broadus Miller (Morgantown, 1927), William McDaniels (Raleigh, 1929), Oliver Moore (Tarboro, 1930), Charles Simmons (Kinston, 1930), unnamed victim (Tarboro, 1930), Dock Rogers (Pender County, 1933), Goven Ward (Louisburg, 1935), unnamed victim (Selma, 1939), unnamed victim (Cherryville, 1941, reported in 1942), Robert Walker (Gaston...

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Coverage of attempted lynching of Godwin "Buddy" Bush and the subsequent trial in Jackson, NC.