“Southern Leaders Impeach Judge Lynch: High Lights from Report of Commission on The Study of Lynching”

Atlanta, Georgia: Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1932. Four page booklet measuring 6 x 9 inches. Some staining and slight wear, overall near fine.. A 1932 booklet summarizing the results of the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching’s findings about the crime, published by the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC). Formed in 1919, the Atlanta-based CIC involved white and African-American leaders and worked to reduce racial tensions in a way tailored to each Southern region in which it had a chapter.[1] In the 1930s, due to the Great Depression, the CIC’s focus shifted from expensive community work to research and education, including forming the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching. The study was headed by sociologist Arthur F. Raper, who would publish The Tragedy of Lynching (1933) based on these findings. We find nineteen copies of this booklet in OCLC.

[1] Ann Pullen, “Commission on Interracial Cooperation”, in New Georgia Encyclopedia, April 5, 2021, https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/commission-on-interracial-cooperation/.