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  • Tags: Lynching

Date: 30-Jun-22
An article in The New York Times, published in New York City, New York on June 30, 1922 "Another Beaten In South: Georgia Business Man Says He Was Seized by Five in White Robes". The article reports the beating of Nola Romey by five white robed and…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jhej41je0oxbh7s/1922.06.30_NewYorkTimeswm.pdf

Date: 30-May-30
A letter from the wife of Lake City Judge Joe Gillen to Florida Governor Carlton reporting inceidences of illegal alcohol sales during prohibition in which local police were complicit. She states that a local Deputy Sheriff runs a "place called Red…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gfw477bprey1e1z/1930.05.30_MrsJoeGillenComplaintwm.pdf

Date: 30-May-30
A letter from an anonymous person to Florida Governor Carlton claiming that alcohol and drugs are being sold illegally in Columbia County. The writer alleges that when sheriff Douglass is informed of impending raids by "prohibition men" enforcing…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0422dwn7zzqny9m/1930.05.30_OnDouglassBootleggingwm.pdf

Date: 31-Aug-31
A letter from K.I. Hamway of Brooklyn, New York to Florida Governor Carlton, dated August 31, 1931, regarding outrage over white complicitcy and participation in lynchings in the South.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fhtkbz3nyuz8ypl/1931.08.31_Letter to Gov re lynching in South 1931-no name-datewm.jpg

Date: 4-Apr-30
A letter from Columbia County Florida Sheriff Wiley "Babe" Douglass to Governor Carlton metnioning the sheriff's lack of knowledge of alleged open bar rooms on the main street of Lake City.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u6hufji2hdfotan/1930.04.04_AlbrittonComplaintwm.jpg

Date: 4-Jun-29
A series of letters reguarding the arsen business in Fort White, Florida in Columbia County. Mrs. W.J. Howell writes the governor asking him to investigate the matter as the County Sheriff Douglass has failed to adequately investigate. Carlton…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d3b2qyjqoc5gw2q/1929.06_Howell_FortWhiteArsenwm.pdf

Date: 5-Jul-29
A letter from Edward J. Dieb, secretary-treasurer of the Southwestern Syrian Merchant's Associtation of Fort Worth, Texas to Florida Governor Carlton, dated July 5, 1929 regarding the murders of Nola and Hasna Romey. The writer urges the governor to…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5htkxbho6pv0uek/1929.07.05_Southwestern Syrian Merchants Assocwm.jpg

Date: 6-Jun-31
A letter from R.H. Champan to Florida Governor Carlton in which Chapmen renegs an endorsement for a candidate, W.H. Brown for Constable given Brown's alleged mistreatment of African-American citizens and illiterate white citizens.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mrr4a7ddcfczdps/1931.06.06_OnConstablePositionwm.jpg

Date: 9-Oct-30
A letter from George Fort Milton of Chattanooga, Tennessee to Florida Governor Carlton, dated October 9, 1930. Milton explains his participation in the efforts of the Commission and asks Carlton to assist the commission as well.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/22zafmkw4i08lxa/1930.10.09_CommissionStudyLynchingToCarltonwm.pdf

Date: Apr 1908
An article in The Randolph Bulletin, published in Asheboro, North Carolina on April 4, 1908 "Syrian Peddler Jailed" a story from Gastonia.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/unaqsbc6lbghxys/1908.04.23_The_Randolph_Bulletinwm.pdf

Date: Apr 1920
A memo from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) dated April 30, 1920 regarding a political ad for J.D. Goss's campaigne for coroner in Birmingham, Alabama. The first paragraph of the ad states "They have…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ivlqmiu6xi76jbz/1920.04.30_NAACP_Memowm.png

Date: Apr 1922
An article in The Tampa Tribune, published in Tampa, Florida on April 13, 1922 "Child Accuses Teacher of Severe Punishment: Seven-Year-Old Syrian Girl Says Whipped Beacuse Failed to Wash Teeth--Teacher Asserts Whipping Due to Falsehoods".
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kcq96p4s7mpgnn7/1922.04.13_The_Tampa_Tribunewm.jpg

Date: Apr 1922
An article in The Tampa Tribune, published in Tampa, Florida on April 16, 1922 "Punishment In The Schools".
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r305adayg79xo95/1922.04.16_The_Tampa_Tribunewm.pdf

Date: Apr 1922
An article in The Tampa Tribune, published in Tampa, Florida on April 21, 1922 "Syrian's Statement Exonerates Teacher: Says Action of Wife Due To Influence".
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ptzry12ipeh4irb/1922.04.21_The_Tampa_Tribunewm.jpg

Date: Dec 1929
An article in The Tampa Tribune, published in Tampa, Florida on December 12, 1929 "Lynchings". This article notes that the total number of lynchings in the United States had fallen since previous years, but three of the total five ocurred in North…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ely33pc6tv5lw7t/1929.12.12LynchingsTampaTribune.pdf

Date: Feb 1909
An article in The Valdosta Daily Times, published in Valdosta, Georgia on February 1, 1909 "Day of Fires Was Sunday: Six Alarms and Three Serious Blazes was Record of Day".
https://www.dropbox.com/s/443n5qdyaz7sv8q/1909.02.01_Clip_ValdostaDailyTimes_DayofFireswasSundaywm.jpg

Date: Feb 1909
An article in the Gainesville Daily Sun, published in Gainesville, Florida on February 2, 1909 "Georgia And Florida Towns Lose By Fire: Eleven Houses Destroyed at Valdosta-Milton Is Almost Wiped Off the Map".
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u9a2padbtmeiaqw/1909.02.02_Gainesville_Daily_Sunwm.jpg

Date: Feb 1929
An article in the Tallahassee Democrat, published in Tallahassee, Florida on February 20, 1929 "Negro Young Man Lynched Today: Body Found Buried Near Purported Crime". Eighteen-year-old African-American man, Buster Adams was taken from the…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z9vtkacy0scfu9h/1929.02.20_Allen_Tallahassee_Democratwm.jpg

Date: Feb 1929
An article in The Orlando Sentinel, published in Orlando, Florida on February 22, 1929 "Lynching Evidence Not Sufficient". Eighteen-year-old African-American man, Buster Adams was taken from the Hillsborough County, Florida jail in Tampa, to protect…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4ekvspylhfw9v2i/1929.02.22_Allen_The_Orlando_Sentinelwm.jpg

Date: Feb 1929
An article in The Tampa Times, published in Tampa, Florida on February 22, 1929 "Jury Probing Lynching Case Finds Nothing: Evidence Lacking in Hernando County Hanging". Eighteen-year-old African-American man, Buster Adams was taken from the…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fmf28omcrq3q2jw/1929.02.22_Allen_The_Tampa_Timeswm.jpg

Date: Feb 1929
An article in The Tampa Times, published in Tampa, Florida on February 27, 1929 "Unjust to Tampa". An article detailing the lynching of Buster Allen objecting to the lynching being associated with Tampa, rather than Hernando County where the majority…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/niqrpyq1012xuvw/1929.02.27_Allen_The_Tampa_Timeswm.jpg

Date: Jan 1923
An article in the Palm Beach Post, published in Palm Beach, Florida on January 6, 1923 "Georgia Syrians Forced to Move Out".
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i8xh1lu3qsc88hb/1923.01.06_The_Palm_Beach_Postwm.jpg

Date: Jul 1929
An article in The Tampa Tribune, published in Tampa, Florida on July 2, 1929 "Half This Year's Lynchings In Florida". This article notes that by for the first half of 1929, Florida had as many lynchings as the rest of the United States combined. It…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qppkqkqbyh0fjc8/1929.07.02_Lynchings_The_Tampa_Tribunewm.jpg

Date: Jun 1907
An article in the Greensboro Daily News, published in Greensboro, North Carolina on June 26, 1907.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a33rp8d413j86zo/1907.06.29_Greensboro_Daily_Newswm.jpg

Date: Jun 1929
An article in The Syrian World, published in New York City, New York in June 1929 "Stand of Senator Reed on Syrians: He Amplifies his Statement on "the Trash of the Mediterranean" in Congress".
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lj2eqfhfz9tmsuz/1929.06_TSW_SenatorReed48wm.jpg
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