Anti-Lynching

One of Effa's most talked-about promotions was an Anti-Lynching Day held at Newark's Ruppert Stadium.

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She was the treasurer of the Newark chapter of the NAACP, she organized a boycott of a store in Harlem that refused to hire black salesclerks, and she held an "Anti-Lynching Day."

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Confined to her bed due to failing health, on May 5, 1919, a critically-ill Madame Walker sent word to the NAACP's Anti-Lynching Conference at Carnegie Hall

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In 1921, the republican dominated senator proposed the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill.

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She began a lecture tour in the Northeast in 1892 and in 1894 she lectured in England where she helped organize the British Anti-Lynching Society.

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The 1919 Anti-Lynching Conference, with the help of W.

Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

The 1919 Anti-Lynching Conference, with the help of W.

Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

The 1919 Anti-Lynching Conference, with the help of W.

Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

Manley used baseball to advance civil rights causes with events such as an Anti-Lynching Day at the ballpark.

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Manley used baseball to advance civil rights causes with events such as an Anti-Lynching Day at the ballpark.

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