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Sunday, August 12, 2012

Vintage Photo

Anti-Lynch campaign, vintage postcard
 In 1937 and again in 1940, yet two more anti-lynching bills passed through the House of Representatives, but were defeated in the Senate. Although the NAACP had failed to get a federal law passed, lynching had almost disappeared by 1950. - vintage

Source: legendsofamerica

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