American Decades
"What Is a Lynching?"
Magazine article
By: Ray Stannard Baker
Date: February 1905
Source: Baker, Ray Stannard. "What Is a Lynching? A Study of Mob Justice, South and North." McClure's Magazine 24, no. 4, February 1905, 430.
About the Author: Ray Stannard Baker (1870–1946) was a muckraking journalist, noted for his investigative articles for McClure's Magazine. He began his literary career in Chicago, joining McClure's in 1898. In 1906, Baker, along with Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, and William Allen White, left McClure's and founded American Magazine, with which Baker remained until 1915, when he obtained a position in the administration of Woodrow Wilson (served 1913–1921). An active supporter of Wilson, Baker produced several major works on the president, including the eight-volume authorized biography Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters, and coedited...
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1900's Lifestyles and Social Trends Primary Sources
- Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington
- "The Road Problem"
- "What Is a Lynching?"
- "The Niagara Movement"
- Emporia and New York
- The Courtesies
- "The Corner Stone Laid"
- The Chautauqua Movement
- The Anti-Saloon League Year Book
- Ohio Electric Railway "The Way to Go"
- Sears, Roebuck Home Builder's Catalog
- "Seven Years of Child Labor Reform"
- The House on Henry Street
- "Bring Playgrounds to Detroit"
- Connecticut Clockmaker
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
