USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

1920S AMERICAN CULTURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In 1922 the NAACP was successful in getting congress to create ____ ?
A
Anti-Discrimination Laws
B
Anti-Lynching Laws
C
Anti-Segregation laws
D
Anti-Poll tax Laws
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1919, the National NAACP announced its support for the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, which would have made lynching a federal offense and assured lynch mobs would face murder charges. With concerted lobbying from the NAACP, the US House of Representatives passed the bill in January 1922.

Detailed explanation-2: -Although NAACP’s successful legal assaults on segregation in the 1940s and 1950s tend to overshadow the organization’s earlier activities, obtaining federal anti-lynching legislation was their primary goal from 1909 to 1939.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ida B. Wells’ pamphlets, including this one, helped alert the public to the rampant lynching of African Americans in the South. In 1898, Wells went to Washington, DC, to implore President William McKinley to institute reforms against lynching and discrimination.

Detailed explanation-4: -These sections of the IPC pertain to murder. Manipur was the first State to form a law against mob lynching in the year 2018 and this law was in sync to the guidelines provided by the Supreme Court.

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