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Box L.27

 Container

Contains 116 Results:

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

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