Title: The Law and Order Protective Association of America - typed letter addressed "To any citizen of the United States desiring the protection of life and home against mob violence..."
Author: Lewis, Edward, President; F.W. Dixon, Vice-President, et. al.
Description: 2 pp. With blind embossed stamp at lower corner of the Association.A little-known Black organization formed in Washington, “to create a fund for the protection of human life from ‘lynchers’, the execution of the laws by the courts, the elimination of mob rule and the preservation of ‘law and order’, offering monetary rewards “for the arrest and conviction of the leader of any mob which destroys the life” of a United States citizen. The House of Representatives passed an anti-lynching bill in 1921, but it was defeated in the Senate by a filibuster of Southern white Democrats. This was one of many organizations which joined the NAACP in mounting an anti-lynching campaign which failed to spur congressional action, Over the next half-century, not one of 200 anti-lynching proposals would pass both houses of Congress.
Heading: (Anti-Lynching Group in Washington, D.C.)Place Published: Washington, D.C.
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Date Published: [c.1920s]

Yellowed unevenly at edges, some yellow spots of finger soiling, mostly at edges, a few tin chips; good.