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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC06197 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1920s |
| Title | For the Good of America |
| Date | circa 1926 |
| Author | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Document Type | Broadside |
| Content Description | 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. |
| Subjects | African American History Civil Rights Mobs and Riots Lynching Death Women's History |
| People | Spingarn, Joel Elias (1875-1939 |
| Place written | New York, New York |
| Theme | African Americans; Women in American History |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Additional Information | Further research has indicated that the facts compiled on this broadside were originally used in a 1922 advertisement in the New York Times in support of the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill. About two-thirds of this broadside is identical to the New York Times ad. Our broadside served as a solicitation of funds and is titled "For the Good of America." Interestingly, the original ad is titled "The Shame of America." A copy of the original New York Times ad can be found at http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6786. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |