There were less than half as many lynchings in the
United States in 1923 as in 1922, and the famous negro institute of Tuskegee reports that 46 lynchings were prevented last year " by officers of the law "—an encouraging fact. The National Association for the Ad- vancement of the Coloured People attributes the improved state of affairs to the northward migration of hundreds of thousands of negroes and to the fear of Federal inter- vention inspired in the south by the Dyer anti-lynching Bill. There is still plenty of room for improvement, for the New York Nation reports that 26 violent deaths were suffered in cases of " mistaken identity, aiding in escape, associating with white women, being in an automobile accident and remaining in a town where negroes were not wanted and frightening white children by walking on a country road."
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