Lynchings Since 1865 – Documenting the Resistance
New York City NAACP Silent Protest Parade (1917)
The National Association of the Advancement of Colored People’s (NAACP) Silent Protest Parade, also known as the Silent March, took...
James Herbert Cameron, Jr. (1914-2006)
James Herbert Cameron Jr. was a civil rights activist responsible for founding three chapters of the National Association for the...
Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill (1922)
The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill (hereinafter “Dyer Bill”) refers to a 1922 Congressional effort to pass federal legislation to address and...
Distant Whistles, Muted Flutes: Ada Wright in Glasgow, 1932
In the following account writer Irene Brown recalls through her father’s photo the visit of Ada Wright, mother to Roy...
Martinsville Seven (1949-1951)
The Martinsville Seven were a group of young black men executed in 1951 after being convicted of raping a white...
(1900) Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in America”
Beginning in 1892 with the destruction of her newspaper, the Memphis Free Speech, Ida B. Wells for the next forty...
(1922) Dyer Anti-lynching Bill
Antilynching Bill 67th Congress, 2nd Session, Report No. 837 April 20 (calendar day July 28), 1922—Ordered to be printed. AN...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Long Struggle for Civil Rights in the United States
In 2009 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People celebrated its 100th anniversary. In the article below historian...
(1909) Ida B. Wells, “Lynching, Our National Crime”
By 1909 Ida B. Wells was the most prominent anti-lynching campaigner in the United States. From the early 1890s she...
