Example Sentences

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With President Biden’s signing of the antilynching law, I feel like a new American.

From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2022

She coordinated meetings between FDR and members of the NAACP, championed antilynching legislation, openly defied segregation laws, and pushed the Army Nurse Corps to allow Black women in its ranks.

From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021

Mary McLeod Bethune — educator, civil rights pioneer, antilynching advocate, adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and founder of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach — will now be the figure depicting Florida.

From Salon • Aug. 18, 2019

In her memoir, she recalled marching as a teenager in Times Square in an antilynching rally.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2010

Probably the most bitter attack on the antilynching committee has come from the London Times.

From The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Wells-Barnett, Ida B.