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Lynching, Frieda Cohen

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis discusses the problem of lynching in the United States from historical, legal, psychological, and sociological aspects.

The first endeavor has been to obtain all the facts possible and my final endeavor has been to point out the conclusions clearly warranted by such facts.

The material for this study was found 1n a wide range of sources, the most important of which were Raper's The Tragedy of Lynching, Chadburn's Lynching and the Law, Cutler's Lynch Law and the material by the Southern Commission on Interracial Cooperation and the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching.

Negro Suffrage In The South Since The Civil War, Thomas Patrick Corbett

Bachelors’ Theses

The subject under consideration is highly controversial since it deals with the social and political theories of men based upon racial prejudices, one group striving for supremacy, the other for its very existence. Apparent contradictory views o-r Southern slavery are confusing to the present day student. One source reports of the staid and gentle patriarchy , lords and retainers of broad and sleepy plantations, upon which life is one of ea.se and happiness. Other sources relate of the oppression of men with barbarous cruelty and unbridled power.

Which picture is to be accepted as true? As in other situations of …

Government Ownership Of The Railways, John Charles Conley

Bachelors’ Theses

In any discussion concerning the possibilities of government ownership of the railways, it is difficult to concentrate the large amount of material into a comprehensive whole for a thesis. However, a short history of regulation followed by the operation of the railways under the government should serve to give an analytical survey sufficient to account for the theory of government controlled roads.