2 1938 newspapers DEMOCRATS FILIBUSTER ANTI NEGR0 LYNCHING LAW Congress Passes

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Lot of two (2) 1938  newspapers with front-page bold headlines and detailed reports announcing that RACIST US SENATE DEMOCRATS FILIBUSTER  & vote against an ANTI-LYNCHING bill designed to protect African Americans, before Congress ultimately Passes the bill into law
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SEE PHOTO-----TWO COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPERs, the
_Macon telegraph
(Macon, Ga) dated January 7 & 11, 1938, with compelling black  history from the height of the racist Jim Crow era in the deep South at the hands of old-school Southern Democrats!
Costigan and New York Democratic Senator Robert F. Wagner sponsored a federal anti-lynching law in 1934. In 1935, Senate leaders tried to persuade President Franklin D. Roosevelt to support the Costigan-Wagner Bill. Roosevelt was concerned about a provision of the bill that called for the punishment of sheriffs who failed to protect their prisoners from lynch mobs. He believed that he would lose the support of the white voters in the South by approving it and lose the 1936 presidential election.
The Costigan-Wagner Bill received support from many members of Congress but the Southern bloc managed to defeat it in the Senate. The national debate that took place over the issue again brought renewed attention to the crime of lynching. By the mid-1930s, the rate of the crime had finally dropped to mostly below 20 annually.
Good condition, with lightly tanned pages.
This listing includes the complete entire original newspaper.
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