: serving or intended to prevent or punish lynching
anti-lynching laws
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In its first few decades, A.K.A. advocated for anti-lynching legislation, full voting rights, and education for Black children.
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Jazmine Hughes, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
DuBois also pays close attention to Black women suffragists, especially Terrell and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, whose anti-lynching work should not obscure her contributions to the women’s rights movement.
—Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
Core to her anti-lynching crusade was the evisceration of the rape myth, exploding the idea that lynching was always retribution for assaults on white Southern womanhood.
—Faron Levesque, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
Throughout her life, Walker supported other civil rights efforts, including donating $5,000 to the NAACP's anti-lynching efforts.
—The Indianapolis Star, 13 Aug. 2016
Calvin Coolidge likewise supported the anti-lynching law and presided over a dramatic national decline in lynchings, reversing the trend line of anti-black violence that had crested during and immediately after Wilson’s tenure in office.
—Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 6 Feb. 2024
Wells was an outspoken critic of segregation, an anti-lynching advocate and also prominent fighter for Black women’s suffrage.
—Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 19 Oct. 2023
In one hallway, she’s hung the portraits of former first ladies of Illinois, including Cora Tanner, an outspoken abolitionist and anti-lynching activist.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2023
During her journalism career, Wells published her anti-lynching writing in the New York Age, A Red Record, the Chicago Conservator (which her husband founded) and other local journals.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
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Jazmine Hughes, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
DuBois also pays close attention to Black women suffragists, especially Terrell and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, whose anti-lynching work should not obscure her contributions to the women’s rights movement.
—Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
Core to her anti-lynching crusade was the evisceration of the rape myth, exploding the idea that lynching was always retribution for assaults on white Southern womanhood.
—Faron Levesque, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
Throughout her life, Walker supported other civil rights efforts, including donating $5,000 to the NAACP's anti-lynching efforts.
—The Indianapolis Star, 13 Aug. 2016
Calvin Coolidge likewise supported the anti-lynching law and presided over a dramatic national decline in lynchings, reversing the trend line of anti-black violence that had crested during and immediately after Wilson’s tenure in office.
—Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 6 Feb. 2024
Wells was an outspoken critic of segregation, an anti-lynching advocate and also prominent fighter for Black women’s suffrage.
—Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 19 Oct. 2023
In one hallway, she’s hung the portraits of former first ladies of Illinois, including Cora Tanner, an outspoken abolitionist and anti-lynching activist.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2023
During her journalism career, Wells published her anti-lynching writing in the New York Age, A Red Record, the Chicago Conservator (which her husband founded) and other local journals.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
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