NAACP Anti-Lynching Poster

1922

The NAACP challenged Americans to confront lynching.

During the Reconstruction era, lynching was a deadly tool of racial terrorism and suppression. In response, an anti-lynching movement emerged. Led by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the movement documented lynchings, conducted investigative reporting, and published pamphlets to raise national awareness of lynching.  

Founded in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) became a central force in the campaign against lynching. This poster includes statistics detailing the African Americans lynched between 1889 and 1922. It enlists all Americans in the fight against lynching