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This letter was written by the NAACP to Kansas Governor Henry Allen concerning the cost of the Anti Lynching conference that had taken place in New York in May of 1919. The NAACP asked Governor Allen to please help reimburse their Anti Lynching fund which paid for the conference. Since Governor Allen had signed an order to call for a national conference on lynching, the NAACP assumed he would be willing to help them. The lynching of African Americans particularly in Southern states had been an ongoing problem since the end of the Civil War. The National Conference on Lynching of 1919 asked for a federal law to be passed against the lynching of all citizens throughout the country. Although the passing of a federal bill failed in the 1920s, the NAACP succeed in bringing national attention to lynching and continued to fight for federal legislation.
Creator: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Date: July 21, 1919
Item Number: 214806
Call Number: Governor's records, Allen, Box 2 Folder 9
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 214806
Collections - State Archives - Governor's Records - Allen, Henry Justin
Community Life - Clubs and organizations - Reform/Advocacy - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Date - 1910s - 1919
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Punishment
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Civil rights - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - African Americans - Discrimination
People - Notable Kansans - Allen, Henry Justin, 1868-1950
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Places - Other States - New York
Thematic Time Period - World War I, 1914 - 1919
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
https://www.kansasmemory.gov/item/214806