Word: anti-lynch
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...first postwar year found them back on the domestic scene, soliciting petitions and funds for the Anti-Lynch League and urging the appointment of David E. Lilienthal as Atomic Energy Commission Chairman...
Honest Mike. Ruth and Mike made a fine team, especially when it came to crusading for the Communist Party. "We had our hands full," says Author McKenney, whose sense of humor is not deep, "with the arms embargo, Prime Minister Chamberlain, the Anti-Lynch bill, and related problems." But now, at 38, she cannot but smile as she recalls some of the differences that stood between her and her husband in those youthful days, e.g., his conviction (the result of his gentle upbringing) that one should always pay one's bills. "I was truly shocked when Mike informed...
...since 1930 had Texans felt the need for a real anti-lynch law. That year a mob in Sherman, Tex. hanged a Negro accused of rape, and while its fury was still up, set fire to Negro business buildings in the town. The fire got out of hand, destroyed a good part of the white folks' downtown district too, including the courthouse. It was the last big mob lynching in Texas' violent history (score: 551 lynchings). Now that President Truman was trying to impose an anti-lynch law on the South, Texans got to thinking again of passing...
Across the line in Arkansas, aggressive, young (36) Governor Sidney S. McMath was having as much trouble putting over civil rights as his good friend Harry Truman, who already had tapped McMath as the kind of progressive leader the South needs. The legislature adjourned after blocking McMath's anti-lynch, anti-poll tax program. To rebel cries that McMath was trying to produce a "mongrel" race, the governor replied wearily: "I thought we had gotten above that sort of thing...