Poster for the NAACP anti-lynching campaign: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

An anti-lynching poster distributed by the NAACP. The poster consists of black text on brown paper. The title at the top reads [FOR THE GOOD OF AMERICA" and the text continues with headings in large text including [3436 People Lynched, 1889 to 1922] and [Is Rape the "Cause" of Lynching?]. There are no inscriptions, front or back.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1922
• Created by: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909
• Type: posters
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W (unframed): 15 1/4 × 10 7/8 in. (38.7 × 27.6 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W x D (framed): 20 3/4 × 16 5/8 × 1 3/4 in. (52.7 × 42.2 × 4.4 cm)
• Place depicted: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Lynching
• Topic: U.S. History, 1919-1933
• Topic: Violence
• Object number: 2011.57.9
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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