Word: antilynching
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...they sought for murdering a plantation owner, lynched three innocent Negroes instead; the pregnant wife of one wailed at her husband's death so loudly that the mob seized her and burned her alive, too." Says Roy Wilkins of the priority given by the N.A.A.C.P. to its antilynch efforts: "We had to stop lynching because they were killing us. We had to provide physical security...
...antilynch battle, the most powerful weapon of the N.A.A.C.P. was publicity. Wilkins' boss, Walter White, was a superb propagandist. Actually one sixty-fourth Negro in family-tree terms, White insisted upon classifying himself as a Negro. He was blond and blue-eyed, and one of his favorite tactics was to go out to investigate a lynching, pass himself off as a white newsman, win the confidence of local law officials-and return to write a brutally detailed report...
...N.A.A.C.P. never did achieve its main aim, that of a federal antilynch law. But it did impress itself enough on the white conscience to end lynching...
Elected to the state senate in 1915, Harry Byrd led a bitter fight for pay-as-you-go road building as against bond financing, won in a referendum, carried on his model highway program after his election as governor in 1925. Governor Byrd pushed through a tough antilynch law, streamlined the state constitution. In the fight for adoption of his changes, he built the famed Virginia Democratic political organization that stands today as one of the nation's oldest and most successful-and Harry Byrd will continue to run it after his Senate retirement...
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