lynch law
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Once the struggle against lynch law was won, the N.A.A.C.P. could give top priority to another drive�against segregated education.
From Time Magazine Archive
The U.N.'s Trygve Lie snapped back: "I am taking orderly and legal measures . . . without recourse to lynch law and smear."
From Time Magazine Archive
Where people have the right of trial in a legally constituted court of law, they must refrain from mob rule or from lynch law.
From The Short Constitution by Russell, William F.
We endured slavery 243 years and stayed here, and we shall still be here when lynch law shall have spent its force, and with us shall be our white brother.
From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Culp, Daniel Wallace
She knew—had not all her woman's intuitions risen in clamorous warning—and yet she hoped, hoped despairingly, even though the dread alternative to the girl at the Wetmore ranch threatened lynch law for her brother.
From Judith of the Plains by Manning, Marie
