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How To Use lynching In A Sentence

• In Denning's formulation, the Popular Front is more productively viewed in Gramscian terms, as a "historical bloc uniting industrial unionists, Communists, independent socialists, community activists, and émigré anti-fascists around laborist social democracy, anti-fascism and anti-lynching. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
• He looks at the history of Eliminationism in American history, from the American Indian from the beginning of European colonization, to post-bellum lynchings of African-Americans in the South, to the anti-Chinese exclusion acts and the internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War. Archive 2009-05-31
• This is a definitive biography of the crusading newspaperwoman of the late 19th century who sued a railroad for kicking her out of the "ladies' car", campaigned against lynching, and crusaded in the suffragist movement.
• White supremacists proclaimed him a threat to white womanhood, and then responded with lynching and the imposition of rigid segregation in the South, and with police surveillance, ghettoization, and antimiscegenation laws elsewhere in the United States. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83
• AMANPOUR: Nobody would condone what you described as the lynching this morning. CNN Transcript - Special Event: Ehud Barak Discusses the Killing of Two Israeli Soldiers in Ramallah - October 12, 2000
• Defining a protest song as that "which addresses a political issue in a way which aligns itself with the underdog," Dorian Lynskey's book begins with the first time protest met pop: Billie Holiday driving the faint of heart out of Café Society in Greenwich Village in 1939 with the harrowing antilynching ballad "Strange Fruit. Angry Howls, Righteous Beats
• And those numbskulls down the street are apologizing for failing to pass anti-lynching laws 100 years ago.
• This result, unforeseen and unanticipated, led to the day's stonings and near lynchings of Chinese laundrymen unconnected to the alleged crimes.
• The doubts of Harlan Fiske Stone, the Chief Justice of the United States, regarding the legal basis for putting Nazi war criminals on trial were so strong that he refused to have anything to do with what he called a "high-grade lynching party. Telling Stories We Need to Hear
• That, in brief, is the purpose of this little volume, in which Dr. Raper summarizes the results of careful studies, made by himself and Professor Walter Chivers, of the eight-four lynchings of the past five years. The Mob Still Rides