1 Let me give you thanks for your faithful paper on the lynch abomination now generally practiced against colored people in the South.
2 White men lynch the offending Afro-American, not because he is a despoiler of virtue, but because he succumbs to the smiles of white women.
3 , on which eight Afro-Americans were hung last year, declared that he would lead a mob to lynch a negro who raped a white woman.
4 It was rumored that five hundred Afro-Americans had organized to lynch him.
5 He was not punished, but an attempt was made in the same town in the month of June to lynch an Afro-American who visited a white woman.
6 From this exposition of the race issue in lynch law, the whole matter is explained by the well-known opposition growing out of slavery to the progress of the race.
7 They do not see that by their tacit encouragement, their silent acquiescence, the black shadow of lawlessness in the form of lynch law is spreading its wings over the whole country.
8 Men who, like Governor Tillman, start the ball of lynch law rolling for a certain crime, are powerless to stop it when drunken or criminal white toughs feel like hanging an Afro-American on any pretext.
9 Even to the better class of Afro-Americans the crime of rape is so revolting they have too often taken the white man's word and given lynch law neither the investigation nor condemnation it deserved.
10 Some of the great dailies and weeklies have swung into line declaring that lynch law must go.
11 , have set a worthy example in that they not only condemn lynch law, but her public men demanded a trial for Weems, the accused rapist, and guarded him while the trial was in progress.
12 "Be careful," said a low voice behind him; "you must not lynch the colored gentleman simply because he's in your way," and a girl looked up roguishly into the eyes of her fair-haired escort.
13 The white man who begins to break the law by lynching a Negro soon yields to the temptation to lynch a white man.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XI. 14 Before night they wanted to lynch him, but he was gone, you see.
15 Rather than have her appear and advertise her shame, her father and brother would have shot her, so lynching the negro seemed a sensible solution to the townspeople, in fact, the only decent solution possible.