[Flag, announcing lynching, flown from the window of the NAACP headquarters on 69 Fifth Ave., New York City] – Historic Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures [Flag, announcing lynching, flown from the window of the NAACP headquarters on 69 Fifth Ave., New York City] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Flag, announcing lynching, flown from the window of the NAACP headquarters on 69 Fifth Ave., New York City]
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From a window of the NAACP's headquarters at 69 Fifth Avenue in New York City, this flag signaled that a lynching had occurred somewhere in the country. The association, which had made ending mob violence a central cause, used such displays to alert passersby and the press to new killings. Through the 1930s it pressed Congress for a federal anti-lynching law, a measure that repeatedly stalled in the Senate despite strong advocacy. The photograph shows how the organization turned its office into a public protest against racial terror.
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [1936] |
| Subjects | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--1930-1940. Lynchings--United States--1930-1940. Banners--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,465 × 1,184 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218593 |
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