Anti-Lynching Publicity Program
Meeting minutes
By: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Date: June 1922
Source: NAACP Anti-Lynching Papers, Anti-Lynching Publicity Program. Available online at http://www.fcii.arizona1.edu/hist396a/amungarro/executive_c... (accessed January 28, 2003).
About the Organization: On President Abraham Lincoln's birthdate in 1909, Ida Wells and W.E.B. DuBois helped organized the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in response to the lynchings of African Americans. In 1919, the organization published Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States: 1889–1919 to call attention to the issue. In 1922, it supported federal legislation prohibiting lynchings.
Introduction
The term lynch originated during the...
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