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- adjective Opposed to the practice of
lynching - adjective Prohibiting the practice of
lynching
Etymologies
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Examples
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Without in any way countenancing the impertinence of "antilynching" committee, we may say that a state of things in which the killing of
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States Ida B. Wells-Barnett 1896
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Early work focused on antilynching efforts, then legal battles against segregation and discrimination, including the 1954 Brown v.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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Early work focused on antilynching efforts, then legal battles against segregation and discrimination, including the 1954 Brown v.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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Defining a protest song as that "which addresses a political issue in a way which aligns itself with the underdog," Dorian Lynskey's book begins with the first time protest met pop: Billie Holiday driving the faint of heart out of Café Society in Greenwich Village in 1939 with the harrowing antilynching ballad "Strange Fruit."
Angry Howls, Righteous Beats Michael Azerrad 2011
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Early work focused on antilynching efforts, then legal battles against segregation and discrimination, including the 1954 Brown v.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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Early work focused on antilynching efforts, then legal battles against segregation and discrimination, including the 1954 Brown v.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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Some of those were the southerners he attacked in his righteous, unyielding, and futile campaign for an antilynching law.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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He brought black citizens back into federal positions Woodrow Wilson had all but purged them during his administration, implored Congress to pass an antilynching bill, and forthrightly denounced the Ku Klux Klan.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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Some of those were the southerners he attacked in his righteous, unyielding, and futile campaign for an antilynching law.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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He brought black citizens back into federal positions Woodrow Wilson had all but purged them during his administration, implored Congress to pass an antilynching bill, and forthrightly denounced the Ku Klux Klan.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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