Definition of Lynching
The NAACP's legal definition of what constitutes a "lynching."
http://www.uic.edu/educ/bctpi/historyGIS/greatmigration/gmdocs/definition_of_lynching.html
BURNED AT THE STAKE
This 1893 article, written by a white New York Sun reporter who gives an eye-witness account of the brutal lynching of a black man in Texas, is notable for its odd mixture of fascination and disgust in relating the incident.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5487
BURNED INTO MEMORY: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN RECALLS MOB VIOLENCE IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY FLORIDA
This excerpt from a 1985 interview on a radio talk program details a black Southerner’s memory of witnessing a lynching in Florida, 1902 when he was just 5 years old. He can still vividly recall the smell of burning flesh.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/67
IDA B. WELLS ANTI-LYNCHING ARTICLE (Newspaper)
A newspaper image and column that appeared in the Richmond Planet on August 26, 1893, as part of Ida B. Wells’ work as an anti-lynching journalist and advocate for Human Rights.
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whoweare/exhibits/mitchell/miller.htm
IDA B. WELLS PAMPHLET INTRO
The introduction to a publication by Ida B. Wells called Lynch Law in Georgia that included reports on the burning of Samuel Hose, the torture and hanging of a colored preacher, and the lynching of nine men for alleged arson.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/murray:@field(DOCID+@lit(lcrbmrpt1612div1)):
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE ANTI-LYNCHING BUREAU
A letter, dated 1901, to the members of the Anti-Lynching Bureau from Ida B. Wells, who urges them to donate more money in order to strengthen the organization.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/murray:@field(DOCID+@lit(lcrbmrpt1711div0))
“LYNCH LAW NATIONAL DISGRACE”
A newspaper column from a 1920 issue of the Cleveland Advocate, citing and condemning national statistics on the number of African Americans lynched since 1889, and urging that the law be enforced for protection against mob violence.
http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page.cfm?ID=9411
MISSISSIPPI LYNCHINGS (Table)
A sobering list of 538 names of people (the vast majority of whom were black) lynched in Mississippi from 1882 to 1930. Included in the table is the offense for which the person was supposedly brought to justice.
http://users.bestweb.net/~rg/lynchings/Mississippi%20Lynchings.htm