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“A man was lynched yesterday” Sepia illustration of a large crowd of rioters, some armed, breaking into the Parish Prison in New Orleans, with men rushing toward the building and one man raising a hatchet. The NAACP's anti-lynching campaign
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“A man was lynched yesterday”
A flag displayed as part of an anti-lynching campaign in the 1920s. It was flown...
Visual Materials from the NAACP Records, Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-33793)
New Orleans lynchings of 1891
Illustration of a mob storming Parish Prison in New Orleans on March 14, 1891.
© Universal History Archive—Universal Images Group/Getty Images
The NAACP's anti-lynching campaign
A poster created by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C. (object no. 2011.57.9)