Location of Lynchings and Prevented Lynchings January 1, 1930, to October 1, 1931.
- Title:
- Location of Lynchings and Prevented Lynchings January 1, 1930, to October 1, 1931.
- Alternate Title:
- Location of Lynchings and Prevented Lynchings January 1, 1930, to October 1, 1931.
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Raper, Arthur F.
- Date:
- 1933
- Posted Date:
- 2024-04-25
- ID Number:
- 2533.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2533_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1920 - 1939
- Subject:
- Slavery/Race
Poverty/Prostitution/Crime - Measurement:
- 6.5 x 10 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- Lynching was a well-documented reality in the United States as early as the failure of Reconstruction. In 1919, the then-recently-formed National Association for the Advancement of Colored People published a lengthy pamphlet documenting “Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States 1889-1918.” The pamphlet is dense with information: detailed stories of 100 specific lynchings; various tables and charts regarding 3,224 separate lynchings by date, state, region, race and gender; and finally a 63-page “Chronological List of Persons Lynched in United States, 1889 to 1918,” showing the name of each victim, date, state and place of the lynching, and the alleged crime.
As the depression deepened in the early 1930s, the nation endured another sharp increase in the number of lynchings and attempted lynchings. That led the Atlanta-based Commission on Interracial Cooperation to form a new "Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching," whose findings and recommendation were published in 1933 as The Tragedy of Lynching by Arthur Raper. In addition to the Commission's observations and recommended actions, the book includes extensive documentation of lynchings and prevented lynchings from 1930-1933, including the date, name of each victim, race (overwhelmingly African-American), alleged crime, and location.
This map details the locations of the 29 lynchings and 81 prevented lynchings between January 1, 1930, and October 1, 1931. It is a dramatic way to focus the viewer on the fact that "the fourteen Southern States, including Missouri and Oklahoma, . . . had ninety percent of the lynchings and ninety-two percent of the preventions in the twenty-one month period." Raper 1933, 43.
For related maps in the collection, Search > lynching.
Cornell University Library is pleased to present this digital collection of Persuasive Maps, the originals of which have been collected and described by the private collector PJ Mode. The descriptive information in the “Collector’s Notes” has been supplied by Mr. Mode and does not necessarily reflect the views of Cornell University. - Source:
- Raper, Arthur F. 1933. The Tragedy of Lynching. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.