Antilynching and Protection of Civil Rights: Hearings ... on H.R. 115, 155, 365, 385, 443, 788, 794, 1351, 4683. H.R. 2182, 3553, and 46821950 - 301 pages |
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... Federal Anti - Lynching Act . " [ H. R. 4683 , 81st Cong . , 1st Sess . ] A BILL To provide protection of persons from lynching , and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of ...
... Federal Anti - Lynching Act . " [ H. R. 4683 , 81st Cong . , 1st Sess . ] A BILL To provide protection of persons from lynching , and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of ...
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... FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MACHINERY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CIVIL RIGHTS PART 1 - ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT PART 2 - REORGANIZATION OF CIVIL - RIGHTS ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ...
... FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MACHINERY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CIVIL RIGHTS PART 1 - ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT PART 2 - REORGANIZATION OF CIVIL - RIGHTS ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ...
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... FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MACHINERY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CIVIL RIGHTS PART 1 - ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMISSION ON CIVIL ... Federal Government with respect to civil rights ; and to appraise the activities of the Federal , State , and local ...
... FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MACHINERY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CIVIL RIGHTS PART 1 - ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMISSION ON CIVIL ... Federal Government with respect to civil rights ; and to appraise the activities of the Federal , State , and local ...
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... Federal , State , and local governments as well as the activities of private individuals and groups . The Commission is to make an an- nual report to the President , incorporating therein its findings and recommendations . In addition ...
... Federal , State , and local governments as well as the activities of private individuals and groups . The Commission is to make an an- nual report to the President , incorporating therein its findings and recommendations . In addition ...
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... Federal district courts and the State and Territorial courts to hold civil proceedings as was done under the Emergency Control Act of 1942 and under the Federal Employers ' Liability Act . The money value requirement of $ 3,000 or more ...
... Federal district courts and the State and Territorial courts to hold civil proceedings as was done under the Emergency Control Act of 1942 and under the Federal Employers ' Liability Act . The money value requirement of $ 3,000 or more ...
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action American American Jewish Committee Attorney General CLARK authority Bill Lowry BYRNE CELLER Chairman citizens Civil Rights Section color Committee on Civil Congress Constitution conviction crime criminal cross burning DENTON Department of Justice deprivation diligent efforts discrimination district court due process duty election enacted enforcement Federal Government FEPC fourteenth amendment FRAZIER governmental subdivision thereof GRIFFITH House imprisonment Interstate Commerce Interstate Commerce Commission investigation Jefferson County JENNINGS jurisdiction jury KEATING Klan Ku Klux Klan LAKE LANE legislation liberties lynch mob ment national origin Negro offense officer or employee penalty person or persons persons from lynching police present President President's Committee privileges process of law prosecution provisions punishment question race religion Sally Burton section 242 secured segregation Senate sheriff South STALLWORTH Sumiton Supreme Court Territory thing tion title 18 told TRAWICK United States Code victim violation Walker County willfully failed
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Page 273 - But as it is easy to foresee that from different causes and from different quarters much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth, as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed...
Page 273 - The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Page 139 - If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 273 - ... a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various...
Page 23 - Vacancies in the membership of the Joint Committee shall not affect the power of the remaining members to execute the functions of the Joint Committee and shall be filled in the same manner as in the case of the original -selection.
Page 97 - Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any inhabitant of any State, Territory, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 253 - All members pledge themselves to take joint and separate action in cooperation with the organization for the achievement of the purposes set forth in Article 55.
Page 281 - District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution and laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such inhabitant being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Page 93 - That all citizens of the United States who are or shall be otherwise qualified by law to vote at any election by the people in any State, Territory, district, county, city, parish, township, school district, municipality, or other territorial subdivision, shall be entitled and allowed to vote at all such elections, without distinction of race, color, or previous condition of servitude...
Page 273 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...