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Protesting against mob violence and racial prejudice as destructive to national unity, speakers at a meeting of the Inter-racial Council last night in the Lowell House Junior Common Room called for the establishment of anti-lynching legislation and for the abolishment of racial discrimination in the armed forces.
At the end of the meeting, at which Francis O. Matthiessen, associate professor of History, presided, a unanimous vote carried resolutions opposing lynching and the poll tax.
It was decided that a petition to the President will be circulated throughout the University decrying the lack of racial unity and urging the President to support anti-lynching legislation.
Among the speakers was E. Merrick Dodd '10, professor of Law, who urged that we set an example of tolerance and cooperation in the struggle for democracy. Others indicated that the international prestige of the United States is suffering greatly from the intolerant treatment of Negroes, and that the Japanese are emphasizing such treatment.
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