Will Take Action
Against Lynching
New York, April 17—A call for a national conference on
lynching to be held here May 5 and 6 to take “concerted action against lynching
and lawlessness wherever found” was issued today by John R. Shillady, secretary
of the conference acting on behalf of a group of 120 well known men and women
of the country who have signed the document. The signers represented the
district of Columbia and 28 states, including 20 signers from eight southern
states.
The signers committee, headed by Moorfield Storey of Boston,
states that 3,210 lynchings, exclusive of the east St. Louis and other mob
riots, have occurred in the United States in the last 30 years. Of this number,
702 of the victims were white people and 2,514 negroes. During 1918 there are
63 negroes and four white persons lynched, according to the committee, which
adds that some of the recent lynchings have been particularly atrocious
involving burning at the stake and torture of the victims.
Among the signers are Attorney and former Attorney Generals
Charles J. Bonaparte and Judson Harmon; five governors, Hugh M. Dorsey of
Georgia, D.W. Davis of Idaho, James O. Goodrich of Indiana, Henry J. Allen of
Kansas and Emerson C. Harrington of Maryland; Elihu Root, Chas. E. Hughes,
Cardinal Gibbons, Senators Arthur Cooper of Kansas and J. Medill McCormick of
Illinois, and Dr. Anna Howard Shaw.
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