Transcript: Interview: Doria Dee Johnson and Senator Mark Pryor discuss the US Senate's formal apology for never passing anti-lynching legislation

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FARAI CHIDEYA
NPR Special
06-15-2005
Interview: Doria Dee Johnson and Senator Mark Pryor discuss the US Senate's formal apology for never passing anti-lynching legislation

Host: FARAI CHIDEYA
Time: 9:00-10:00 AM

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I'm Farai Chideya, and this is NEWS & NOTES.

More than 4,000 lynchings took place in the United States between 1882 and 1968. Men and women, mostly black, were kidnapped from their homes or town streets and brutally murdered. Usually these victims had no protection against the mobs who came to kill or just watch the killing. Police and government did nothing until now. On Monday night, the US Senate passed a resolution apologizing for failing to stop the ...

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