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• Lynching and Rape: An Exchange of Views (occasional paper #25, revised; New York: American Institute for Marxist Studies, c1982), ed. by Bettina Aptheker, contrib. by Jane Addams and Ida B. Wells-Barnett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Changing Character of Lynching: Review of Lynching, 1931-1941, With a Discussion of Recent Developments in This Field (Atlanta: Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1942), by Jessie Daniel Ames, contrib. by Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Judge Lynch: His First Hundred Years (New York: I. Washburn, c1938), by Frank Shay (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lynch-Law: An Investigation into the History of Lynching in the United States (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1905), by James Elbert Cutler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States (reprint of 1895 pamphlet), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States, 1892-1893-1894, Respectfully Submitted to the Nineteenth Century Civilization in 'the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave' (Chicago: Donohue and Henneberry, 1895), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (illustrated HTML at NIU)
• Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (originally published 1892), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1918 (New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1919), by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (multiple formats at archive.org)
• We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief From a Crime of the United States Government Against the Negro People (third edition; New York: Civil Rights Congress, 1952), by Civil Rights Congress (U.S.), ed. by William L. Patterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Anti-Lynching Crusaders: "A Million Women United to Suppress Lynching" (ca. 1922), by Anti-Lynching Crusaders, contrib. by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lynching, a national menace : the white South's protest against lynching (Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, 1919), by James E. Gregg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The disgrace of democracy : open letter to President Woodrow Wilson ([Washington, D.C.?] : [The Author?], [1917?]], 1917), by Kelly Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thirty years of lynching in the United States, 1889-1918. (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Office, 1919), by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tragedy of the negro in America. A condensed history of the enslavement, sufferings, emancipation, present condition and progress of the negro race in the United States of America (Boston, Mass., 1898), by P. Thomas Stanford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Race question reviewed (Nashville, Tenn. : [publisher not identified], 1899., 1899), by C. S. Smith and Charles Simpson Butcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antilynching : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 4 (Judiciary), Eightieth Congress, second session, on Feb. 4, 1948. (U.S. G.P.O., 1948), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 4 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antilynching and protection of civil rights : hearings before Subcommittee no. 3 of the Committee on the Judiciary, Eighty-first Congress, first and second sessions on H.R. 115, H.R. 155, H.R. 365, H.R. 385, H.R. 443, H.R. 788, H.R. 795, H.R. 1351, and H.R. 4683, for the better assurance of the protection of citizens of the United States and other persons within several states from mob violence and lynching and for other purposes; H.R. 2182 and H.R. 3553, to permit the prosecution of lynching in federal courts when the Governor or Attorney General of the state concerned lacks authority to direct the prosecution in state courts, or such prosecution is impaired by his refusal to do so; H.R. 4682, to provide means of further securing and protecting the civil rights of persons within the jurisdiction of the United States, June 8, 15, 22, and 29, 1949; January 17 and 24, 1950. (Govt. Print. Off, 1950), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 3 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lynch law and the immigrant alien (Peoples of America Society, 1920), by Frederic C. Howe and Peoples of America Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lynch-law; an investigation into the history of lynching in the United States, by James Elbert Cutler, contrib. by William Graham Sumner (Gutenberg ebook)

• Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror (third edition, c2017), by Equal Justice Initiative (illustrated HTML and PDF at eji.org)
• A Statement From Governor Hugh M. Dorsey as to the Negro in Georgia (ca. 1921), by Hugh Manson Dorsey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mob murder in America : the challenge which lynching brings to the churches. (Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America , 1923), by Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Department of Race Relations (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Jim Crow Car: or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race (Toronto: Hill Printing Co., 1898), by J. C. Coleman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States (reprint of 1895 pamphlet), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States, 1892-1893-1894, Respectfully Submitted to the Nineteenth Century Civilization in 'the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave' (Chicago: Donohue and Henneberry, 1895), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (illustrated HTML at NIU)

• The plight of Tuscaloosa : a case study of conditions in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, 1933 (The Commission, 1933), by Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Lynch Law in Georgia (Chicago: Chicago Colored Citizens, 1899), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, contrib. by Louis P. Le Vin
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at NIU
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Lynching and its remedy ([Atlanta?] : [publisher not identified], [1916?]], 1916), by Samuel Barnard Adams and Georgia Bar Association (page images at HathiTrust)

• The mob murder of S. S. Mincey, with the added story of a threatened lynching foiled. (Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching, 1932), by Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Mob Rule in New Orleans: Robert Charles and His Fight to Death; The Story of His Life; Burning Human Beings Alive; Other Lynching Statistics (1900), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Capital punishment in North Carolina. (N.C. State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, 1929), by North Carolina State Board of Public Welfare and Nell Battle Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hon. Benjamin Franklin Long, judge of the Superior Courts of North Carolina. Published opinions on two important cases: State vs. Southern Railway Co., et al, [and] State vs. George Hall; together with an introductory letter to his son by Henry Jerome Stockard. ([Raleigh, 1912), by Henry Jerome Stockard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shelby County's Shame: Story of Big Creek Lynching and Trial (ca. 1895) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The shadow of the scarlet sin : a novel of "real life" (Broadway Publishing Co., 1910), by Marion Curtis and Broadway Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• To Prevent and Punish the Crime of Lynching : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on S. 121, Sixty-Ninth Congress, first session, on Feb. 16, 1926. (U.S. G.P.O., 1926), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Crime of Lynching : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on H.R. 801, Seventy- Sixth Congress, third session, on Feb. 6, 7, Mar. 5, 12, 13, 1940. (U.S. G.P.O., 1940), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Punishment for the Crime of Lynching : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on S. 24, Seventy-Fourth Congress, first session, on Feb. 14, 1935. (U.S. G.P.O., 1935), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

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• 100 Years of Lynchings (New York: Lancer Books, c1962), by Ralph Ginzburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Feeling is Tense": 1937 Lynchings 8, Prevented Lynchings, 56 (Bulletin #8; 1938), by Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Black Man's Burden, or, The Horrors of Southern Lynchings: The Most Thrilling Exposé of Southern Lawlessness Ever Presented to the American People (Olean, NY: Olean Evening Spirit, 1902), by Irenas J. Palmer, contrib. by Julius Gardner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Truth About Lynching and the Negro in the South, In Which the Author Pleads That the South Be Made Safe for the White Race (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1918), by Winfield H. Collins
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The truth about lynching and the Negro in the South, in which the author pleads that the South be made safe for the white race. (Neale Pub. Co., 1979), by Winfield H. Collins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thirty years of lynching in the United States, 1889-1918. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lynch-law : an investigation into the history of lynching in the United States. (Longmans, Green, and co., 1905), by James Elbert Cutler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tragedy of lynching (The University of North Carolina press, 1933), by Arthur Franklin Raper and Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching (page images at HathiTrust)
• Behind the lynching of Emmet Louis Till (Freedom Associates, 1955), by Louis E. Burnham and Freedom Associates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lynching and frame-up in Tennessee (New Century publishers, 1946), by Robert Minor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lynchings and what they mean (The Commission, 1931), by Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching and George Fort Milton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rope and faggot. (Arno Press, 1969), by Walter Francis White (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Questions sociales et politiques (E. Plon, Nourrit et cie, 1893), by Arthur Desjardins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lynching and the law (University of North Carolina press, 1933), by James Harmon Chadbourn, Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching, and University of. School of law North Carolina (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origin of the Lynch law, 1870. (Percy Press, 1959), by Alfred Percy (page images at HathiTrust)
• "With quietness they work." Report of the activities of Southern women in education against lynching during 1937. ([The Association], 1938), by Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The black shadow and the red death (Broadway Pub. Co., 1914), by Billy Munday (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lynch-law; an investigation into the history of lynching in the United States. (Longmans, Green, 1905), by James Elbert Cutler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lynching bee, and other poems (B. W. Huebsch, Inc., 1920), by William Ellery Leonard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ein Tagebuch in Amerika. (F. Vieweg u. Sohn, 1839), by Frederick Marryat and Georg Nicolaus Bärmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• A diary in America, with remarks on its institutions. (Baudry's European Library, 1839), by Frederick Marryat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antilynching ... Report. <To accompany S. 24> (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1935), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary and Frederick Van Nuys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lynch-law; an investigation into the history of lynching in the United States. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by James Elbert Cutler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lynch-law: an investigation into the history of lynching in the United States. (Longmans, Green, 1905), by James Elbert Cutler (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Has the United States government the power to prosecute 'lynching' as a federal crime without an amendment to the Constitution?". (J.A. Quail, 1921), by Leon Evans Mertins (page images at HathiTrust)
• An appeal to the conscience of the civilized world. (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1920), by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (page images at HathiTrust)
• The truth about lynching and the Negro in the South : in which the author pleads that the South be made safe for the white race (Neale, 1918), by Winfield Hazlitt Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondence in relation to the killing of prisoners in New Orleans on March 14, 1891. (G.P.O., 1891), by United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• La ley de lynch en los Estados Unidos; disertacion leida en la apertura de la Academia de Derecho (La Universal, Ruiz y hermano, 1892), by José A. González y Lanuza (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime of Lynching : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on S. 42, S. 1352, and S. 1465, Eightieth Congress, second session, on Jan. 19-21, Feb. 2, 18, 20, 1948. (U.S. G.P.O., 1948), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Punishment for the Crime of Lynching. : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on S. 1978, Seventy-Third Congress, second session. (U.S. G.P.O., 1934), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• A diary in America : with remarks on its institutions (Baudry's European Library, 1839), by Frederick Marryat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime of lynching. Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, second session, on S. 42 [and others] bills to assure to persons within the jurisdiction of every State due process of law and equal protection of laws, and to prevent the crime of lynching, and for other purposes (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1948), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thirty years of lynching in the United States, 1889-1918. (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1967), by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Antilynching and protection of civil rights : hearings before Subcommittee no. 3 of the Committee on the Judiciary, eighty-first Congress, first and second sessions on H.R. 115, H.R. 155, H.R. 365, H.R. 385, H.R. 443, H.R. 788, H.R. 795, H.R. 1351, and H.R. 4683 ... (Govt. Print. Off., 1950), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antilynching. Hearings before Subcommittee no. 4 of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, second session, on H.R.41 [and others] ... February 4, 1948. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1948), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lawlessness or civilization, which? : Report of addresses and discussions in the Law and Order Conference, held at Blue Ridge, N.C., August 4th, 5th and 6th, nineteen hundred and seventeen. (Nashville : Williams Print. Co., [1917], 1917), by N.C.) Law and Order Conference (1917 : Blue Ridge and Willis D. Weatherford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The plight of Tuscaloosa : a case study of conditions in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, 1933 (The Commission, 1933), by Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Why is the Negro Lynched?, by Frederick Douglass (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Fight Against Lynching: Anti-Lynching Work of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the Year Nineteen Eighteen, by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Gutenberg ebook)

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