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Negro Accused of Killing Sheriff is Denied Body

February 8, 1951

Describes that a Black man named William Franklin Webb was accused of killing asheriff and was denied bail. Also, cites an incident where Webb was approached by a lynch mob

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Lynching Said No Longer Barometer of Race Conflict

February 4, 1951

Explains the belief that lower numbers of Black Americans were being lynched incomparison to white Americans and that violence against the Black community was likely totake form in different ways, such as bombings and flogging

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Editorial Grist: Not Judicially Honest

January 29, 1948

Describes that Senator Eastland of Mississippi found it unnecessary for the Supreme Court to pass an anti-lynching law and that other people within the area had grown distrusting of the Supreme Court.

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