Antilynching Protesters These Howard University students protested the New Deal’s refusal to support antilynching legislation by standing outside the Washington, D.C., building of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1935 with nooses around their necks and placards naming recent lynching victims. Roosevelt and his advisers never made federal antilynching laws a priority since they feared alienating white southerners whose votes were needed to pass other New Deal measures.
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