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#1 2011-03-10 02:00:40

sigmoid freud

Starting in 1909, legislators introduced more than 200 bills in Congress to make lynching a Federal crime, but they failed to pass, chiefly because of Southern legislators' opposition. Because Southern states had effectively disfranchised African Americans at the turn of the century, the white Southern Democrats controlled all the seats of the South, nearly double the Congressional representation that white citizens alone would have been entitled to. They were a powerful voting block for decades. Under the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration, the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department tried, but failed, to prosecute lynchers under Reconstruction-era civil rights laws. The first successful Federal prosecution of a lyncher for a civil rights violation was in 1946.

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#2 2011-03-10 02:16:55

opsec

Legislative history is not going to draw this crowd.

Post some Redneck Nazi videos! Or some ICP... or really anything violent with clown makeup.

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