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The Omaha Guide
Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska
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In Atlanta, Ga., in April, the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching, headed by George Fort Milton, announced the publication of its final 500-page report, 'The Tragedy of Lynching,' by the University of North Carolina Press, covering 40 years of lynching data and 1930 cases.
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Atlanta, Ga., April The Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching, headed by George Fort Milton, editor of the Chattanooga News, today announced the publication of its final report in the form of a 500 page book just from the University of North Carolina Press.
Entitled "The Tragedy of Lynching," this volume is the result of two years of painstaking investigation and study of lynching phenomena, and lays bare to the public a vast amount of authentic information on this subject never before available. It surveys the general lynching situation over a period of forty years, presents exhaustive case studies of each of the twenty-one lynchings of 1930, and also includes studies of a number of cases in which threatened lynchings were averted.
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Atlanta, Ga.
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The Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching announced the publication of its final report as a 500-page book entitled 'The Tragedy of Lynching' from the University of North Carolina Press. The book results from two years of investigation, surveying 40 years of lynching, with case studies of 21 lynchings in 1930 and averted threatened lynchings.