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Mississippi and the Mob - comp J.N. Flowers (1926).pdf
Book compiled to condemn mob violence and demand local law enforcement officers uphold their duties to protect their inmates from mob violence.

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Front cover of the book Mississippi and the Mob, containing the title and a political cartoon by [?] Cross of the Nashville Tennessean

06 - Photo of 'The Burning of Jim Ivy' on pg 20 - Copy.jpg
Page 20 of book Mississippi and the Mob, consisting of a photo of the burning of L. Q. Ivy who is, as in the case of this photo, often misrepresented as "Jim Ivy"

07 - Photo of 'The Angry Mob' on pg 22 - Copy (2).jpg
Page 22 of book Mississippi and the Mob, consisting of a photo of a lynch mob

The_Monroe_News_Star_Thu__Dec_3__1925_(1).jpg
Newspaper article critiquing the book Mississippi and the Mob

Anti-lynching Broadside Fired in Mississippi.pdf
A newspaper article promoting the book Mississippi and the Mob

Colorful News - Movies.pdf
Newspaper article promoting the book Mississippi and the Mob

Whites Draft Defy Lynchers, Urge Sheriffs to Shoot.pdf
Newspaper article promoting the book Mississippi and the Mob

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This July 18, 1930 letter between George Washington Carver and Wilson L. Newman contains discussion of Carver's and Newman's lives, their friends, as well as lynching that has occurred throughout the country.
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