The Truth About Lynching and the Negro in the South / In Which the Author Pleads That the South Be Made Safe for the White Race

by Winfield H. Collins

Copyright, 1918, by
The Neale Publishing Company

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THE TRUTH ABOUT LYNCHING
AND
THE NEGRO IN THE SOUTH

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE
[Preface]
CHAPTER
I	The Lynching of Negroes in the South Previous to the Civil War	[9]
II	Lynching During the Civil War and the Carpet-Bag Rule	[29]
III	Lynching from the End of Carpet-Bag Rule to the Present Time	[48]
IV	The Criminality of the Negro	[72]
V	Segregation of the Negro	[101]
VI	Negro Wealth or Poverty,—Which?	[123]
VII	The Future of the Negro	[141]

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PREFACE

In the preparation of these pages an effort has been made to discover and present the truth in regard to the Negro in the South. The first three chapters need not be considered an attempt at justification of lynching nor an effort at palliation of the disorder, but rather as a setting forth of the facts, conditions, and extenuating circumstances in such connection. The purpose of the other four chapters is to throw light upon the mental, moral, and material condition of the Negro.