LYNCH LAW.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 38, 14 February 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)

LYNCH LAW.

GROWING HABIT IN U.S.A

25 CASES LAST YEAR,

Twenty-five persons were lynched in the United States in 1930, as against twelve in 1929, the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People announced recently. Of the victims 24 were negroes and ono was a white man. In 1929 all but four of the victims were negroes. , . Georgia heads the lynching States with seven victims. Alabama and Texas had four each, Mississippi three, Indiana and South Carolina two each, and North Carolina, Florida, and Oklahoma had one each.

iMtomwmMMwamwwMwniKwiwM According to a statement by Walter White, acting secretary of the association, attacks on women were charged in only three cases last year, the offences including failing to stop an automobile when ordered, being active in politics, quarrelling with a white man, murder, assault and attempted assault, robbery, and testifying against a white man. , Mr. White's statement said that " during the year representative white women of twelve Southern States, including 1 church, educational, voters', Y.W.C.A., and i club groups have issued two statements . characterising lynching /as ' the complete breakdown of government and the triumph of anarchy,' and stating that ' it brutalises the community where it occurs.' " Declaring " prompt action by Congress on lynching " to be " vitally necessary," Mr. White commented that in periods of depression " tempers are short" and " mob hysteria flames up more quickly than in normal times."