From Days Gone By Feb 19, 1921

February 19, 1921.
    The lynching record in the United States for 1920 year is in. Only 55 instances came in which officers of the law were able to quell a lynching and prevent them. Of these ten were in Northern States and forty-six in the Southern States. In forty-two of these cases the prisioners were hurried away and saved or a force organized to protect them. In fourteen of the cases armed guards repelled the lynchers. In four of these fourteen instances the mob was fired upon and seven of the attackers were killed and several wounded.
    There were sixty-one persons lynched in 1920. Of these fifty-two were in the South and nine in the North and West. This is twenty-two less than the number, eighty-three, for the year 1919. Of those lynched fifty-three were colored and eight were white. One of those put to death was a colored woman.
    Eighteen, or less than one-third of those put to death, were charged with rape or attempted rape. Three of the victims were burned to death. The charges against those burned to death were: rape and murder, one; killing landlord in a dispute, two.
    The offenses charged the whites were: murder, five; insulting a woman, one; no charge except being a foreigner, one; killing officer of the law, one.
    The offenses charged against the colored were: murder, five; attempted murder, four; killing pfficer of the law, five; killing landlord in a dispute, six; rape, fifteen; attempted rape, three; assisting fugitive to escape, three; wounding another, two; insulting a woman, two; knocking down guard, escaping from chain gang and then returning and surrending, two; jumping labor contract, one; threatening to kill a man, one; cutting man in a fight, one; for receiving stay of death sentances because another confessed crime, one; peeping through window at women, one; insisting on voting, one.
    The states in which lynchings occured and the number in each state were: Texas, ten; Georgia, nine; Alabama, seven; Florida, seven; Mississippi, seven; California, three; Minnesota, three; North Carolina, three; Oklahoma, three; Arkansas, one; Illinois, one; Kansas, one; Kentucky, one; Missouri, one; Ohio, one; South Carolina, one; Virginia, one; West Virgina, one.