By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.
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I started my political career facing lynch mobs.
For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.
Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.
You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people.