De Facto vs. De Jure: Lynching – Primary Sources

Doc. 1: Ida B. Wells-Barnett, “Lynch Law in America,” The Arena vol. 23 no. 1 (January 1900), 15-24, Internet Archive [excerpts; transcription].
Illustration of three men labeled "Riot," "Lynching," and "Violence" burning a female figure labeled "Law and Order" at the stake. She is tied to the stake with ribbons labeled "Prejudice" and "Defiance".

Doc. 2: Udo Keppler, “At the Stake,” originally published in Puck, July 22, 1903, Library of Congress.

Doc. 3: Booker T. Washington, “A Protest Against the Burning and Lynching of Negroes,” originally printed in Birmingham Age-Herald, February 29, 1904. Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection, Library of Congress.
Transcription of Doc. 3: Booker T. Washington, “A Protest Against the Burning and Lynching of Negroes.”
Doc. 4: Ida B. Wells, “Lynching Our National Crime,” Proceedings of the National Negro Conference, 1909, New York, May 31 and June 1 (New York, 1909): 174-179.
Transcription of Doc. 4: Ida B. Wells, “Lynching Our National Crime.”
Doc. 5: Poster for the NAACP anti-lynching campaign, 1922, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Doc. 6: “Arkansas,” The Chicago Defender, May 14, 1927. [Report on the lynching of John Carter in Little Rock.]

Transcription of Doc. 6: “Arkansas,” The Chicago Defender, May 14, 1927.

Doc. 7: Arthur F. Raper, “Toll of the Mob.” An excerpt from The Tragedy of Lynching, University of North Carolina Press, 1933: 1-2.
Transcription of Doc. 7: Arthur F. Raper, “Toll of the Mob.”
Doc. 8: Jessie Daniel Ames’s letter to Council Members, October 18, 1937, Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching Papers, 1930-1942 (MICROFILM HV6464.A87), Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.

Transcription of Doc. 8: Jessie Daniel Ames’s letter to Council Members, October 18, 1937.