  January 17—Hazelhurst, Miss., Sam Edwards, burned to death; charged with murder of Bera Willes, seventeen-year-old white girl. Jan"ary 26—Benton, La., Jim Hudson, hanged; living with a white woman. February 7—Fayetteville, Ga., "Bud" Cosby, hanged; intent to rob and kidnapping. Febr"ary 12—Estill Springs, Tenn., Jim McIllheron, burned; accused of shooting to death two white men. G. W. Lych, who hid McIllheron, was shot to death. Febr"ary 23—Fairfax, S. C., Walter Best, hanged; accused of murder. Febr"ary 26—Rayville, La., Jim Lewis, Jim Jones and Will Powell, two hanged and one shot to death; accused of stealing hogs. In the fray one white man and one Negro were killed. Febr"ary 26—Willacoochee, Ga., Ed. Dansy, shot; he had killed two white officers and wounded three others. March 16—Monroe, La., George McNeel and John Richards, hanged; alleged attack upon a white woman. Ma"ch 22—Crawfordsville, Ga., Spencer Evans, hanged; convicted of criminal assault upon a colored woman at the February term of court and sentenced to be hanged, but a mob took him from jail and lynched him. Ma"ch 26—Lewiston, N. C., Peter Bazemore; alleged attack upon a white woman. April 4—Collinsville, Ill., Robert P. Praeger, hanged (white); accused of making disloyal remarks. Ap"il 20—Poplarville, Miss., Claud Singleton, hanged; accused of murdering a white man. He had been sentenced to life imprisonment. Ap"il 22—Lexington, Tenn., Berry Noyes, hanged; murder of Sheriff W. E. McBride. Ap"il 22—Monroe, La., Clyde Williams, hanged; shooting C. L. Thomas, Missouri-Pacific station agent at Fawndale. May 17—Valdosta, Ga., Will Head, Will Thompson, Hayes Turner, Mary Turner, Sydney Johnson, Eugene Rice, Chime Riley, Simon Schuman and three unidentified Negroes, hanged; alleged complicity in the murder of Hampton Smith. M"y 20—Erwin, Tenn., Thomas Devert, shot and burned; alleged murder of a white girl. M"y 22—Miami, Fla., Henry Jackson, hanged; throwing a white man underneath a train. M"y 22—Red Level, Ala., John Womack, shot; alleged assault on a white woman. M"y 23—Cordele, Ga., James Cobb, hanged; alleged murder of Mrs. Roy Simmons. M"y 25—Barnesville, Ga., John Calhoun, shot; alleged murder of John A. Willis. June 4—Huntsville, Tex., Sarah Cabiness and her five children; Peter, Cute, Tenola, Thomas and Bessie, shot; alleged threat to avenge killing of George Cabiness. J"ne 4—Beaumont, Tex., Kirby Goolsie, hanged; alleged attack on a white girl. J"ne 4—Sanderson, Tex., Edward Valentine (white); murder. J"ne 18—Mangham, La., George Clayton, hanged; murder of his employer, Ben Brooks. In a battle with the posse he wounded six men, probably fatally. J"ne 18—Earle, Ark., Allen Mitchell, hanged; wounding Mrs. W. M. Langston. J"ne 29—Madill, Okla., L. McGill, hanged; alleged attack upon a white woman. July 27—Ben Hur, Tex., Gene Brown, hanged; alleged assault on a white woman. August 7—Bastrop, La., "Bubber" Hall, hanged; alleged attack on a white woman. Aug"st 11—Colquit, Ga., Ike Radney; reason unknown. Aug"st 15—Natchez, Miss., Bill Dukes, shot to death. "He was guilty of a crime too revolting for publication." Aug"st 15—Quincy, Fla., unidentified Negro; reason unknown. Aug"st 15—Macon, Ga., John Gilham, hanged; alleged attack on two white women. Aug"st 28—Hot Springs, Ark., Frederick Wagner (white); disloyal utterances. September 3—San Pedro, Cal., Warren Czerich (white); murder. Sept"mber 18—Buff Lake, Tex., Abe O'Neal; shot and wounded white man. Sept"mber 24—Waycross, Ga., Sandy Reeves, hanged; alleged assault on a white girl. November 5—Rolesville, N. C., George Taylor, hanged; rape. Nove"ber 11—Sheffield, Ala., William Bird, hanged; "for creating disturbance." Nove"ber 12—Sheffield, Ala., George Whiteside, hanged; charged with the murder of a policeman. Nove"ber 14—Fort Bend County, Tex., Charles Shipman; disagreement with landowner. Nove"ber 24—Culpepper, Va., Allie Thompson; charged with assaulting a white woman. December 10—Green River, Wyo., Edward Woodson; charged with killing a railroad switchman. Dece"ber 16—Hickman, Ky., Charles Lewis, hanged; alleged to have beaten Deputy Sheriff Thomas. Dece"ber 18—Newport, Ark., Willis Robinson, hanged; murder of Patrolman Charles Williams. Dece"ber 21—Shubuta, Miss., Major and Andrew Clarke and Maggie and Alma House, hanged; accused of murder of Dr. E. L. Johnston. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE Organized, February, 1909 1. To abolish legal injustice against Negroes. 2. To stamp out race discriminations. 3. To prevent lynchings, burnings and torturings of black people. 4. To assure to every citizen of color the common rights of American citizenship. President Wilson declared for woman suffrage as a war measure. Black men are not allowed to vote in many of the states of the Union, despite the Fifteenth Amendment. 5. To compel equal accommodations in railroad travel, irrespective of color. 6. To secure for colored children an equal opportunity to public school education through a fair apportionment of public education funds. Unless the colored child can be educated he is at a fearful disadvantage. An uneducated Negro population menaces national well-being. This education should be of hand and brain and can be adequately done for all Negro children, not the fortunate few, only by public schools. 7. To emancipate in fact, as well as in name, a race of nearly 12,000,000 American-born citizens. The only means we can employ are education, organization, agitation, publicity—the force of an enlightened public opinion. THE WORK IS SUPPORTED ENTIRELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS. Send contributions to NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City Official Organ—THE CRISIS, published Monthly. NATIONAL OFFICERS President Moorfield Storey Vice-Presidents Archibald H. GrimkÉ Rev. John Haynes Holmes Bishop John Hurst Capt. Arthur B. Spingarn Oswald Garrison Villard EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Chairman of the Board, Mary White Ovington John R. Shillady, Secretary Oswald Garrison Villard, Treasurer Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, Director of Publications and Research James Weldon Johnson, Field Secretary Walter F. White, Assistant Secretary BOARD OF DIRECTORS Baltimore Bishop John Hurst Boston Joseph Prince Loud Moorfield Storey Butler R. Wilson Buffalo Mary B. Talbert Chicago Jane Addams Dr. C. E. Bentley Memphis R. R. Church New Haven George W. Crawford New York Rev. Hutchens C. Bishop Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois Rev. John Haynes Holmes Dr. V. Morton Jones Florence Kelley Paul Kennaday John E. Milholland Mary White Ovington Capt. Arthur B. Spingarn Major J. E. Spingarn Charles H. Studin Oswald Garrison Villard Lillian D. Wald William English Walling Philadelphia Dr. William A. Sinclair Springfield Rev. G. R. Waller St. Louis Hon. Charles Nagel Wilberforce Col. Chas. Young, U. S. A. Washington Prof. Geo. William Cook Archibald H. GrimkÉ Charles Edward Russell |
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