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Encouraging Student Examination of Persuasive Strategies Used in an Anti-Lynching Report

Posted by: Stephen Wesson

In the November-December 2018 issue of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, our “Sources and Strategies” article focuses on one document used in the battle against mob violence against African Americans: a 1921 report from the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary in support of a bill to make lynching a federal crime.