antilynching
- a word derived from lynch.
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
After recommending an expression against Lynch Law, the President attacked the antilynching movement, deliberately misrepresenting my position, and in her annual address, charging me with a statement I never made.
From The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Wells-Barnett, Ida B.
