ANTI-LYNCH LAW
AMERICAN NEGROES’ APPEAL
AI.AV YOUJv, July JO
President Hoover’s Law Enforcement Commission, which is now investigating the causes of crime in the United States, has boon petitioned by the National Association for the Advancement; of Coloured People to include the investigation of offences against American negroes in the form of lynching, disfranchisement, peonage, and mob violence.
A statement sent to Mr George Wicker-sham. chairman of the commission, declares that coloured citizens in the South are prohibited from exercising their right to vote, it is complained, by sheer intimidation, terrorisation, and discrimination in the administration of the law.
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Evening Star, Issue 20252, 13 August 1929, Page 9
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99ANTI-LYNCH LAW Evening Star, Issue 20252, 13 August 1929, Page 9
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