The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, July 1st, 2005
This past June 15 GOP senators declined to cosponsor a Senate resolution apologizing for 80 years of inaction on federal antifynching legislation. All 44 Democratic senators were cosponsors of the measure. Eight of the GOP senators have held firm and never affixed their name to a copy of the resolution which went on display in Washington.
Between 1882 and 1968 more than 4,700 Americans were lynched in the United States.
Seven presidents of the United States supported anti-lynching legislation, and on more than 200 occasions anti-lynching legislation came before the Senate. Yet in every case ...
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