Word: anti-lynch
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...current debate over proposed amendment of the cloture rule to prevent filibusters from blocking legislative action. Still in progress, the discussion began on February 28, and has been primarily a Dixieorat affair. The Southerners charge that the majority move is designed to clear the path for forcing antipoll tax, anti-lynch, and Fair Employment Practices laws through the Senate...
...might be well to point out that serious doubt exists that any federal anti-lynch bill could improve conditions. A lynching is not the result of careful planning on the part of a few leaders. It springs from mob violence. When such violence has risen to the point where it will result in a lynching, the existence of a law will have no effect. And is it to be supposed that any federal law will result in later effective action against a mob whose leaders often "are not known...
...denies that a serious race problem exists in this country. Anyone who knows the South realizes that its democratic solution rests in careful and planned education toward cooperation and understanding. Raking up the issue of the anti-lynch bill has more harmful than good possibilities. Thomas Carroll...
...Tories of the Revolution and the Copperheads of the Civil War. Today, another crucial war measure, the granting of Dominion Status of India, is assailed only by the enemies of democracy and the appeasers still at large in the democratic capitols of the world. The argument against anti-lynch legislation at the present time because it is a war measure will not stand...
...this war against fascism. They know the issues at stake. Their sole demand is for full integration into every phase of the war effort. They are supported in this demand by anti-fascists everywhere. In fighting for democracy and against fascism aboard, we must not give up the struggle against every expression of fascist brutality and fascist racism at home. This is the meaning of anti-lynch legislation today. Clinton Oliver, Chairman, Harvard Inter-Race Council...