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Box L.27

 Container

Contains 116 Results:

Lynching Legislation - 75th Congress (1937-1939) - Congressional Record, 1937-1938

 File — Box: L.27
Scope and Contents

Official printed record of congressional floor activity; contains annotations including inserted notes on "From the desk of Carl Murphy" paper.

Dates: 1937-1938

Lynching Legislation - 76th Congress (1939-1941) - Bill Texts, 1939-1940

 File — Box: L.27
Scope and Contents

Printed bill H.R. 5588 and committee reports on H.R. 801

Dates: 1939-1940

Lynching Legislation - 76th Congress (1939-1941) - Voting Records, 1940, undated

 File — Box: L.27
Scope and Contents

Roll call vote record on cloture in the Senate, and for 1940 House vote on Gavagan bill.

Dates: 1940; undated

Lynching Legislation - 77th Congress (1941-1943), 1941

 File — Box: L.27
Scope and Contents

Printed text of bill H.R. 971 introduced by Gavagan in 1941, and clippings about the Gavagan bill and 5 other anti-lynching bills introduced.

Dates: 1941

Lynching Legislation - 80th Congress (1947-1949), 1947

 File — Box: L.27
Scope and Contents

Printed text of S. 1352 the Wagner-Morse anti-lynching bill.

Dates: 1947