A press release from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) about a Ku Klux Klan lynching, 1926.

This press release includes details of a report written by Walter White, a civil rights activist and journalist, about the lynching of Bertha Lowman. Lowman, her brother, and her cousin were lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in Aiken, South Carolina.

Citation Information
Press Service of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, “Press releases from the Press Service of the NAACP,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/2ee3719f4e9ea77f36885f121895e398.
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Courtesy of Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries via Digital Commonwealth.

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