Name: The Mob Still Rides

Barcode: 58730

Image Number: 58730

Permanent URL: https://oshermaps.org/map/58730.0001

Brief Description: Detailed review of lynching from 1931-1935 describing lynching cases, ways to prevent this crime and concluding that more police service, stronger jails and more efficient court procedures were needed. The report also emphasized more education and better reporting.

Publishing Location: Atlanta

Publisher: Commission on Interracial Cooperation,

Date Published: Jul 1936

Language: English

Dimensions: H 22.3 X W 15 cm

Historical Context: Lynchings took place in the United States before and after the American Civil War most commonly in the Southern states and Western frontier settlements. Mob violence was used as a way to enforce white supremacy. Groups such as the Ku Klux Klan instigated many of the crimes against Black people in order to instill fear. Several bills introduced in Congress against lynching did not pass until the 1950's Civil Rights Movement and the lynching of 14 year old Emmett Till gained momentum. In 2018 the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama commemorated the victims of lynching. Finally on March 29, 2022 President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act of 2022 classifying lynching as a federal hate crime.

LC Call Number: HV6464.C67

OCLC: 2822586