Meanings
- not comparableOpposed to the practice of lynching
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Writing from London, to the Chicago Inter Ocean, Nov. 25, 1894, the distinguished compiler of our last census, Hon. Robert P. Porter, gives the American people a most interesting review of the antilynching crusade in England, submitting editorial opinions from all sections of England and Scotland, showing the consensus of British opinion on this subject.
1895, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, The Red Record - not comparablelawProhibiting the practice of lynching
The year before, he donated his earnings from his performance in Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings to Jewish refugees fleeing Germany, and in 1945 he worked to get Harry Truman to support an antilynching law.
1998 March 27, Cara Jepsen, “Days of the Week”, in Chicago Reader
Origin
Translations
Portuguese antilinchamento
- antilinchamentoprohibiting the practice of lynching
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