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The WCTU and Lynching, 1893
1media/truthtelling-header.gif2018-11-09T00:22:45-08:00Frances Willard House Museum396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a23042515"We denounce the lynching, burnings, and torturings of our fellow citizens for real or supposed crimes..."image_header2019-01-29T17:44:34-08:0011-1893Frances Willard House Museum396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2In the fall of 1893, the WCTU passed this anti-lynching resolution at its annual convention. Susan Fessenden, the Massachusetts WCTU leader who sponsored it, said later that the assembly accepted it without much controversy. Compare the text to the resolution passed at the next convention, in the fall of 1894.
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12018-11-09T00:26:36-08:00Frances Willard House Museum396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a21893 WCTU Anti-Lynching Resolution5The WCTU passed this anti-lynching resolution at its convention in fall 1893.plain2019-01-09T21:40:09-08:0011-1893Frances Willard House Museum396bd2bebf501b08ca215cf721fbba097eb2e1a2
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12018-11-09T00:26:36-08:001893 WCTU Anti-Lynching Resolution5The WCTU passed this anti-lynching resolution at its convention in fall 1893.plain2019-01-09T21:40:09-08:0011-1893
