Program

The Center for Learning and Teaching Newsletter Teaching News

Author's Department

Rhetoric and Composition Department

Document Type

News Article

Publication Title

New Chalk Talk

Publication Date

10-18-2005

Abstract

During the 1st Session of the 109th Congress, the United States Senate passed S.Res. 39, “apologizing to the victims of lynching and the descendants of those victims for the failure of the Senate to enact anti-lynching legislation” (U.S. Senate). This historic apology was initiated by Senators Mary L. Landrieu (D-LA) and George Allen (R-VA), who after reading the book Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photographs in America, were motivated to introduce legislation.

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