September 22, 2011
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Imprint, House of Representatives, "Mob Violence and Lynching" Washington, March 23, 1948, 20 pp. the imprint offers a bill to make lynching a Federal Offence. On the front page, there is a table noting the number of lynchings from 1921 through 1945, with the high number of 64 in 1921. At least 4,749 Americans are known to have been lynched during a time when the Congress failed to act on some 200 anti-lynching bills.
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