Sixty persons were lynched in states below the Mason and Dixon line in the year just ended, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced in a report made public here. Texas headed the list in numbers.
Of those lynched, the report state, 52 were negroes, seven white Americans and one a Mexican. Seven of the victims were alleged to have been publicly burned to death.
From the front page of The Roanoke Beacon, Plymouth, N.C., Friday, January 5, 1923
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