| Lynching Persists
Are the members of my Race and I to be murdered and hacked by other Americans whose faces are white, but whose souls are of the blackest?
Appeal to End Lynching 1929
Horace Robinson wrote this appeal to President Herbert Hoover to end lynching in the United States. He asks the President if he and the members of his race are "to be murdered and hacked by other Americans whose faces are white but whose souls are of the blackest?"
National Archives, General Records of the Department of Justice