Word: lynch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...petition now being circulated by the Harvard Inter-Race Council has been attacked as illiberal, and seeking to foist anti-lynch legislation on the South as a war measure...
...anti-lynching bill is a constructive, liberal measure, and it has long been generally desired. The present petition now being circulated in the Houses, however, contains the germs of a highly illiberal attitude. The circulators of this petition would like to have the anti-lynch bill passed as a "war measure." In other words, they would like an anti-lynch measure forced upon the South much as Prohibition was foisted upon the nation at large during the last World War. This would dangerously split the country. The South should not be pampered on this matter, but the method being used...
James Doherty Lynch...
James Doherty Lynch...
...educational conversion of the South would take much longer than the available time, which is nil. But some temporary relief may arise from anti-lynch petitions, like that which the Harvard Inter-Race Council will circulate tonight in an open meeting in the Lowell Junior Common Room. We cannot afford to let the lobbies, campaigns, and popular waves of indignation continue their peace-time feebleness into...