NYC, A Man Was Lynched Yesterday, 1936

Flag, announcing lynching, flown from the window of the NAACP headquarters on 69 Fifth Avenue, New York City The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African-Americans. The stereotype of a lynching is a hanging, because hangings are what crowds of people saw, and are also easy to photograph. Some hangings were professionally photographed and sold as postcards, which were popular souvenirs. Lynchings were often large mob actions, attended by hundreds or thousands of watchers. Lynchings in the United States rose in number after the American Civil War in the late 1800s, following the emancipation of slaves; they declined in the 1920s but have continued to take place into the 21st century. Most lynchings were of African-American men in the South, but women were also lynched, and white lynchings of blacks occurred in Midwestern and border states, especially during the 20th century Great Migration of blacks out of the South. The purpose was to enforce white supremacy and intimidate blacks through racial terrorism. Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records, 1936

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