: serving or intended to prevent or punish lynching
anti-lynching laws
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From anti-lynching bills, to the Civil Rights Acts, desegregation of schools, the Voting Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act, the NAACP has had a hand in major change.
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Charlotte Observer, 11 July 2025
Born in 1862, Wells was an influential Black journalist and anti-lynching advocate.
—Amy Gais / Made By History, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025
The 1892 People’s Grocery murders, whose victims were friends of Wells-Barnett, began her long career of anti-lynching writing and activism.
—Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Feb. 2025
In its first few decades, A.K.A. advocated for anti-lynching legislation, full voting rights, and education for Black children.
—Jazmine Hughes, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
DuBois also pays close attention to Black women suffragists, especially Terrell and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, whose anti-lynching work should not obscure her contributions to the women’s rights movement.
—Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
Core to her anti-lynching crusade was the evisceration of the rape myth, exploding the idea that lynching was always retribution for assaults on white Southern womanhood.
—Faron Levesque, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
Throughout her life, Walker supported other civil rights efforts, including donating $5,000 to the NAACP's anti-lynching efforts.
—The Indianapolis Star, 13 Aug. 2016
Calvin Coolidge likewise supported the anti-lynching law and presided over a dramatic national decline in lynchings, reversing the trend line of anti-black violence that had crested during and immediately after Wilson’s tenure in office.
—Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 6 Feb. 2024
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Charlotte Observer, 11 July 2025
Born in 1862, Wells was an influential Black journalist and anti-lynching advocate.
—Amy Gais / Made By History, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025
The 1892 People’s Grocery murders, whose victims were friends of Wells-Barnett, began her long career of anti-lynching writing and activism.
—Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Feb. 2025
In its first few decades, A.K.A. advocated for anti-lynching legislation, full voting rights, and education for Black children.
—Jazmine Hughes, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
DuBois also pays close attention to Black women suffragists, especially Terrell and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, whose anti-lynching work should not obscure her contributions to the women’s rights movement.
—Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
Core to her anti-lynching crusade was the evisceration of the rape myth, exploding the idea that lynching was always retribution for assaults on white Southern womanhood.
—Faron Levesque, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
Throughout her life, Walker supported other civil rights efforts, including donating $5,000 to the NAACP's anti-lynching efforts.
—The Indianapolis Star, 13 Aug. 2016
Calvin Coolidge likewise supported the anti-lynching law and presided over a dramatic national decline in lynchings, reversing the trend line of anti-black violence that had crested during and immediately after Wilson’s tenure in office.
—Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 6 Feb. 2024
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“Anti-lynching.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-lynching. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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