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The “Red Record of Lynching Map,” 1889-1921 (NARA ID 149268727), Record Group 233, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Image from Tulsa Red Cross Photo Album of the Tulsa Massacre and Aftermath, NARA ID 157688056
Today’s post is by Miriam Kleiman, National Archives Program Director for Public Affairs.
Following Congressional action on child labor and the passage of Prohibition, Dyer appealed to his colleagues and questioned their priorities:
If Congress has felt its duty to do these things, why should it not also assume jurisdiction and enact laws to protect the lives of citizens of the United States against lynch law and mob violence? Are the rights of property, or what a citizen shall drink, or the ages and conditions under which children shall work, any more important to the Nation than life itself? (Cong. Rec, House, 65th Cong., 2nd sess. (5/7/1918), 6177–6178).
While his bill faltered, racial violence intensified and increased. Black servicemen who had fought for their country in WWI came home to face an outbreak of racial violence known as the “Red Summer” because of the extent of bloodshed.
The Tulsa Massacre of 1921 was one of the worst worst instances of mass racial violence in American history. The violence centered on Tulsa’s Greenwood District (aka “Black Wall Street”) a commercial area with many successful black-owned businesses. In 24 hours, hundreds were killed, thousands displaced, and 35 city blocks were burnt to ruins.
The Tulsa Chapter of the American Red Cross aided many victims and compiled a report with photos of riot scenes, devastated areas, National Guard troops, destroyed homes, dead victims, and massacre survivors in temporary housing. Warning: Some images are graphic and viewers might find them disturbing for racial violence.
With NAACP support, Rep. Dyer heightened his efforts. In 1922, after the so-called “Dyer anti-lynching Bill” had passed the House and awaited a Senate vote, Dyer submitted this “Red Record of Lynching Map” to Congress showing lynchings by state and naming congressmen who opposed the Bill.
The map was created by a leader in the anti-lynching crusade, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, editor of the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight and author of two anti-lynching texts, Southern Horrors and The Red Record. Wells-Barnett is one of a number of minority women featured in the National Archives Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote exhibit marking the centennial of women’s suffrage. Video below produced and edited by Kyra Wilkins, former National Archives intern.
Dyer reintroduced the measure in each new Congress in the 1920s, to no avail. Nearly 200 anti-lynching bills were introduced in Congress during the first half of the 20th century alone, and such efforts continue today.
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