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Box L.27

 Container

Contains 116 Results:

Lynching Legislation - 74th Congress (1935-1937) - Clippings, 1934-1935

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Contains mainly documentation of bill number S. 24, also known as the Costigan Wagner bill, and clippings referring to the many bills introduced during the 74th congress.

Dates: 1934-1935

Lynching Legislation - 74th Congress (1935-1937) - Congressional Record, 1935-1936

 File — Box: L.27
Scope and Contents

Printed Congressional Record issues from 1935 and 1936, which include statements by congressmen Gavagan, Celler, and Wolverton.

Dates: 1935-1936

Lynching Legislation - 74th Congress (1935-1937) - Telegrams, 1935-1936

 File — Box: L.27
Scope and Contents

Includes a telegram from Walter White of NAACP and another from H. Horton of New York

Dates: 1935-1936

Lynching Legislation - 75th Congress (1937-1939), 1937

 File — Box: L.27
Scope and Contents

Contains printed bills H.R. 143, 162, 164, and 228 and a clipping about antilynching bills introduced.

Dates: 1937

Lynching Legislation - 75th Congress (1937-1939) - H.R. 1507 - Congressional Record, 1937

 File — Box: L.27
Scope and Contents

Congressional Record issues regarding H.R. 1507, aka Gavagan bill debate.

Dates: 1937

Lynching Legislation - 75th Congress (1937-1939) - H.R. 1507 - Letters, 1937

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents Includes a 1937 telegram from Representative Hamilton Fish of New York to Carl Murphy with Murphy's response. Also contains advocacy letters circulated by the NAACP, letters to the editor of the AFRO, and letters from members of Congress including Emanuel Celler of New York, Representatives T. Alan Goldsborough (First District of Maryland), Stephen W. Gambrill (Fifth District of Maryland), William P. Cole, Jr. (Second District of Maryland), and Ambrose J. Kennedy (Fourth District of...
Dates: 1937