JF Ptak Science Books Post 2288
This truly is an appeal “to the world” for there to be an understanding about what was happening to African Americans in the United States in 1920–and this appeal wasn’t about unequal access to education or jobs or Jim Crow laws or any of the social assaults made on those people; it was more basic than that. It was a statement of how thousands of African Americans were being lynched, and murdered, and burned. The appeal was extremely basic–to let it be known that these horrors were being committed against a class of people with little capacity to defend itself legally.
It is a roll call of terror, listing “barbarous” practices against “colored Americans”, citing 84 persons “murdered or ‘lynched’ .
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