Cover title.

Publication date based on the fact that these are highlights from the full Report of the Commission on the Study of Lynching, which was published in 1933.

A summary of "the significant facts revealed in an exhuastive investigation recently made by the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching and given to the public in a 500-page volume entitled 'The Tragedy of Lynching' [by Arthur Franklin Raper, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1933]"--P. [2].

"The fact was discovered that lynching, while decreasing rapidly during the last three decades, is becoming more exclusively a Southern practice, with 97 per cent of all the country's lynchings occuring in the South in recent years... It was found that is it also becoming increasingly a racial phenomenon"--P. [4].

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the phrase, "Judge Lynch" is the lynch law personified.

Lynching > United States.

Mobs > United States.

African Americans > Violence against.

Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching.

Commission on Interracial Cooperation.