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- GLC#
- GLC06197
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- circa 1926
- Author/Creator
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Title
- For the Good of America
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 37.6 cm, Width: 27.9 cm
- PDF Download(s)
- PDF copy (image only)
- Primary time period
- Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
NAACP poster listing statistics regarding the 3,436 lynchings that occurred between 1889 and 1922. States "Do you know that the United States is the Only Land on Earth where people are burned at the stake?" Reports that 83 women have been lynched in the United States. Requests that donations are sent to Joel Elias Spingarn, NAACP Treasurer.
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