Correspondence to Governor Carlton of Florida regarding the lynching of Henry Woods in Jasper, Hamilton County, Florida after Woods shot and killed the Jasper Chief of Police, Ira Foler. Perry Allison and Lit Cole, policement of Lake City were…
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…
An article in The Tampa Times, published in Tampa, Florida on November 12, 1929 "Carlton To Make Investigation of Quincy Lynching". Will Larkins, an African-American man, was accused of assaulting a school-girl and taken to the county jail. Later, he…
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…
An article in The Tampa Tribune, published in Tampa, Florida on June 2, 1929 "Negro Drowned by Florida Mob After Hands Are Severed". Jim Mobley, a seventy-two year old African-American man was "found in company with a white woman". Subsequently, a…
An article in the Pensacola News Journal, published in Pensacola, Florida on June 2, 1929 "Lynching Party Brings Arrests: White Men Held After Body of Negro Is Found". Jim Mobley, a seventy-two year old African-American man was "found in company with…
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…
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…
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…
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…
An article in The Tampa Tribune, published in Tampa, Florida on November 30, 1919 "Negro Attacks White Woman Near Lake City And Forfeits His Life". An African-American man, Sam Mosely, was hanged from a tree and his body riddled with bullets in…
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".
An article in The Lake City Reporter, published in Lake City Florida on May 17, 1929 "Exclude Immigrants For Five Year Period". This article was published in Lake City on the day Nola Romey was lynched and Fannie Romey was killed by police officers.…
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".
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".
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…
An article in The Atlanta Constitution, published in Atlanta, Georgia on November 28, 1919 "Extensive Robbery Scheme Discovered: Four Men Arrested for Complicity in Series of Car Robberies in Valdosta".
An article in The Tampa Tribune, published in Tampa, Florida on October 11, 1917 "Alleged Slacker Wanted In Valdosta Marries A Tampa Widow With Five Children".
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".
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".
