Punishment for the Crime of Lynching: Hearings Before a Subcommittee...on S. 1978...Feb. 20 and 21, Mar. 16, 19341934 - 276 páginas |
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... fact that out of the 554 people lynched be- tween 1918 and 1934 , 503 were members of the Negro race . This is a matter of common knowledge . It is a mockery of the principle of political equality that has been sealed with the blood of ...
... fact that out of the 554 people lynched be- tween 1918 and 1934 , 503 were members of the Negro race . This is a matter of common knowledge . It is a mockery of the principle of political equality that has been sealed with the blood of ...
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... facts and principles which vitally inspire it are simple . America , in spite of all its contributions to civilization , stands today both unique and impaired in reputation as a country in which governmental officials are permitted ...
... facts and principles which vitally inspire it are simple . America , in spite of all its contributions to civilization , stands today both unique and impaired in reputation as a country in which governmental officials are permitted ...
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... fact , that is already occurring . Should there be continuance of physical suffering through unemployment and maladjustments of the economic , social , and political order , it is not at all impossible nor improbable that lynching mobs ...
... fact , that is already occurring . Should there be continuance of physical suffering through unemployment and maladjustments of the economic , social , and political order , it is not at all impossible nor improbable that lynching mobs ...
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... facts should be disclosed . We can't assume that it is unimportant because the victim was a friendless Negro . Surely human life hasn't lost that much in the scales . [ From the Norfolk ( Va . ) Pilot , Jan. 2 , 1934 ] LYNCHING TOTAL ...
... facts should be disclosed . We can't assume that it is unimportant because the victim was a friendless Negro . Surely human life hasn't lost that much in the scales . [ From the Norfolk ( Va . ) Pilot , Jan. 2 , 1934 ] LYNCHING TOTAL ...
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... facts . The News has often asked why it is , if this contention of the defenders of lynching is true , that those who get lynched are usually those who lack the wealth or the influence to beat the law , while those who have this wealth ...
... facts . The News has often asked why it is , if this contention of the defenders of lynching is true , that those who get lynched are usually those who lack the wealth or the influence to beat the law , while those who have this wealth ...
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accused action arrested Attorney General LANE authorities AZRAEL Baltimore Chairman citizens civil COLBURN colored committee Congress Constitution constitutionality conviction Costigan-Wagner bill crime of lynching criminal crowd Deals Island denied due process Duer duty Dyer bill enact enforce equal protection evil Ex parte Virginia fact favor Federal court Federal Government fourteenth amendment FREDERICK VAN NUYS George Armwood Governor grand jury guaranteed guilty HAYMAN indictment jail Judge justice legislation liberty lynchers lynching occurred Maryland Maury County ment mob violence MORRIS murder Negro officers opinion penalty person police Princess Anne prisoner process of law prohibitions prosecute provisions punish question race record Representative SUMNERS responsibility Robins Salisbury Senator CoSTIGAN Senator DIETERICH Senator MCCARRAN Senator VAN NUYS sentiment sheriff South southern State's attorney statement statute Supreme Court THOMPSON tion United United States Senate victim violation Virginia Wagner
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Página 257 - ... the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Página 252 - The equality of the rights of citizens is a principle of republicanism. Every republican government is in duty bound to protect all its citizens in the enjoyment of this principle, if within its power. That duty was originally assumed by the States, and it still remains there. The only obligation resting upon the United States is to see that the States do not deny the right. This the amendment guarantees, but no more. The power of the national government is limited to the enforcement of this guaranty.
Página 256 - to come to the seat of government to assert any claim he may have upon that government, to transact any business he may have with it, to seek its protection, to share its offices, to engage in administering its functions. He has the right of free access to its seaports, through which all operations of foreign commerce are conducted, to the subtreasuries, land offices, and courts of justice in the several States.
Página 239 - ... fetter and degrade the state governments by subjecting them to the control of congress, in the exercise of powers heretofore universally conceded to them of the most ordinary and fundamental character; when in fact it radically changes the whole theory of the relations of the state and federal governments to each other and of both these governments to the people...
Página 262 - This power, like all others vested in congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the constitution.
Página 58 - Lord; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried: and all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley: and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
Página 260 - Whoever, by virtue of public position under a State government, deprives another of property, life, or liberty without due process of law. or denies or takes away the equal protection of the laws, violates the constitutional inhibition, and as he acts in the name and for the State and is clothed with the State's power his act is that of the State. This must be so or the constitutional prohibition has no meaning.
Página 199 - If the case is such that the whole proceeding is a mask that counsel, jury and judge were swept to the fatal end by an irresistible wave of public passion, and that the state courts failed to correct the wrong, neither perfection in the machinery for correction nor the possibility that the trial court and counsel...
Página 244 - If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Página 260 - This must be so, or the constitutional prohibition has no meaning. Then the State has clothed one of its agents with power to annul or to evade it.