Crime of Lynching: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session, on H.R. 801, an Act to Assure to Persons Within the Jurisdiction of Every State Due Process of Law and Equal Protection of the Laws, and to Prevent the Crime of Lynching, February 6, 7, March 5, 12, and 13, 1940

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Considers (76) H.R. 801.

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