Andy Dawson to Woodrow Wilson
Title
Andy Dawson to Woodrow Wilson
Creator
Dawson, Andy
Identifier
TI00137
Date
1918 June 29
Description
Call for lynching to be made a federal crime.
Source
National Archives and Records Administration 230/06/41 file #158260 box #1276 NARA ID #60
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
Subject
African-Americans--segregation
Language
English
Text
President Wilson,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Owing to the fact of the brutality treatment which has existed through out the United States of America. I now feel well justified in taking great pleasure as a citizen under the Stars and Stripes of this country, asking you in addition to your Speech of July 4th, 1918, to speak a few words condemning lynching and burning and make it a federal crime to any one who many comit such disloyalty crimes and many other unlegal things which has been existing through the United States of America.
I am going soon to fight for the worlds democracy. This is all I ask of you. Hoping this will meet your approval.
Andy Dawson
Res. Hot Springs
Ark
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Owing to the fact of the brutality treatment which has existed through out the United States of America. I now feel well justified in taking great pleasure as a citizen under the Stars and Stripes of this country, asking you in addition to your Speech of July 4th, 1918, to speak a few words condemning lynching and burning and make it a federal crime to any one who many comit such disloyalty crimes and many other unlegal things which has been existing through the United States of America.
I am going soon to fight for the worlds democracy. This is all I ask of you. Hoping this will meet your approval.
Andy Dawson
Res. Hot Springs
Ark
Original Format
Letter
Collection
Citation
Dawson, Andy, “Andy Dawson to Woodrow Wilson,” 1918 June 29, TI00137, Race and Segregation Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.