> In article <12i16c3uk69289@corp.supernews.com>,
> "yamsham" yahoo.com> wrote:
>

>> "BTR1701" ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
>> news:btr1702-1C627E.23544201102006@news.giganews.com...

>>> In article <1159732226.786329.129420@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
>>> "regertz@aol.com" aol.com> wrote:
>>>

>>>> I've seen the lynching postcard exhibit here in Atlanta, it's
>>>> horrible and horrible to think that even FDR couldn't get an
>>>> anti-lynching bill through Congress as late as the 30s and 40s.

>>>
>>> Considering that murder has been a capital crime in every state in the
>>> union since the founding of the Republic, I'm not sure what good an
>>> anti-lynching bill would have done, since lynching is just murder done
>>> in a specific way.

>>
>> Lynching is a form of murder, but the lynching of African-Americans in the
>> South wasn't just an act of violence against one person. It had social, ...