The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.13, page 208, Dec. 1914, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers THE LYNCHING RECORD FOR I 9 I 4 Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Dec. 3~, 19~4. ~ find according to records kept by the Department of Records and Research of the Tuskegee Institute that during the year that has just passed 52 persons were put to death by mobs. Of this number 49 were colored and 3 were white. The number of persons lynched in 19~4 was apparently the same as for ~ 9 ~ ~ and Is the smallest number for a year since records of lynchings have been kept. Although the number of lynchings has not increased, there appears to be an increasing tendency to lynch for any cause, however trivial, and also to disregard sex. Of the 52 persons lynched in the past year only seven, or ~3 per cent, two white and five colored, were charged with rape. Three of those lynched were women. One of these women was only seventeen years old, and was charged with killing a man who, it was reported, had raped her. Another of the women lynched was accused of beating a child to death; while the third woman and her husband were charged with setting fire to a barn. In the presence of their four-year-old child they were put to death. The crimes charged against the persons killed were: murder, As; robbery and murder, 6; robbery and attempted murder? I; suspected of murder, I; rape, 6; attempted rape, I; killing an officer, 5; wounding officer, I; murderous assault, 3; alleged murderous assault, I; biting off a man's chin, I; accused of wounding a person, I; killing person in quarrel, 4; beating child to death, I; trying to force way into woman's room, I; stealing shoes, I; stealing mules, I; setting fire to a barn, a; assisting man to escape who had wounded another, I; being found under a house, I. ~ find that lynchings occurred cluring the year in fifteen States as follows: Alabama, 2; Arkansas, I; Florida, 4; Georgia, 2; Louisiana, As; Mississippi, ~2; Missouri, I; New Mexico, I; North Dakota, I; North Carolina, I; Oklahoma, 3; Oregon, I; South Carolina, 4; Tennessee, I; Texas, 6. Booker T. Washington PDSr Galley proof Con. 5~4 BOW Papers DLC. ~o8