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ELEVEN persons joined our church the other Sundayand they were all from Vicksburg, Miss., where there hadbeen a lynching a few weeks before,” said Dr. L. K. Wil-liams, colored pastor of the largest protestant church inNorth America, in an address to the Baptist Ministers’council of Chicago. Tuskeegee institute records of lynchings the first sixmonths of this year show the following numbers in thestates named: Alabama, 3; Arkansas, 4; Florida, 2;Georgia, 3; Louisiana, 4; Mississippi, 7; Missouri, 1;North Carolina, 2; South Carolina, 1; Texas, 1. Thetotal, 28, is seven less than in the corresponding period of1918 and fourteen more than in the corresponding periodof 1917. Not only is Chicago a receiving station and port ofrefuge for colored people who are anxious to be free from _ the jurisdiction of lynch law, but there has been built here a publicity or propaganda machine that directs its appealsor carries on an agitation that every week reaches hun-dreds of thousands of people of the colored race in thesouthern states. The State street blocks south of 31ststreet are a “newspaper row,” with the Defender, theBroad Ax, the Plaindealer, the Searchlight, the Guide,the Advocate, the Whip, as weekly publications, andthere are also illustrated monthly magazines such as theHalf Century and the Favorite.51
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