A MAN WAS LYNCHED YESTERDAY #1049

Caption from poster__       lynchings Crusade  “ The Shame of America,” At it's headquarters on Fifth Avenue  in New York City, the NAACP flew a  flag that read “A Man Was Lynched  Yesterday.” to  report lynching, until  1938, the threat of losing its lease  forced the association to  discontinue the practice.     Established by the NAACP in 1916 to develop an effective program to stamp out lynching, the Anti-lynching Committee developed legislative and public awareness campaigns. In 1919 the NAACP published Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1918. This report indicated that 3,224 people were lynched in the thirty-year period. Of these, 702 were white and 2,522 black . Among the justifications given for the lynchings were petty offenses such as "using offensive language, refusal to give up land, illicit distilling."   The Committee also compiled lynching statistics in 1921. It took full-page advertisements on November 23, 1922, in The New York Times, The  Atlant