jkwilliams
What stopped the federal government from intervening on behalf of the victims or possible victims of lynching in the South?
Lynching in the United States
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tjared
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For many decades Southern Democrat senators held Congress in deadlock. They had total control over the African American population because only whites could vote in the South and these voters supported such practices as lynching.
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Mallorean
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FDR feared to support the federal anti-lynching bill, worried that it would lose him Southern Democratic votes. However, he instituted the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department, which did not have a successful lynching conviction until 1946.