Citizens Committee of Stamford to Woodrow Wilson
Title
Citizens Committee of Stamford to Woodrow Wilson
Creator
Citizens Committee of Stamford
Identifier
TI00157
Date
1919 July 30
Description
Asking President to exercise his authority to enforce the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution and stamp out lynching.
Source
National Archives and Records Administration 230/06/41 file #158260 box #1276 NARA ID #101
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
Subject
African-Americans--segregation
Language
English
Text
A Petition
Citizens Committee of Stamford,
Stamford, Conn.
To His Excellency President Woodrow Wilson,
White House, Washington D.C.
We, the Citizens Committee of the city of Stamford, in the State of Connecticut; do hereby petition you and through you every member of the present 66th Congress, 1st, to exercise your just and legal authority for the enforcement of the 13th-14th- & 15th amendments to the constitution of the United States; and 2nd to enact a law sufficiently strong and elaborate enough to more than cope with and utterly stamp out the lynching evil, which so shamefully continues to drench our beloved homeland in blood. And we further pray, that, for the sake of making our claims of democracy and religion a REALITY instead of hypocritical pretensions; that the foregoing be given immediate attention.
William J. B. [illegible]
Chairman, Ex-Corporal
Member of committee
" " "
A. Alexander Lewis
H. Franklyn Lewis
[illegible] D. James
J. Simon Scott
E. H. Collins
Rev. William O. Harris
Edwin A. Levitt
Citizens Committee of Stamford,
Stamford, Conn.
To His Excellency President Woodrow Wilson,
White House, Washington D.C.
We, the Citizens Committee of the city of Stamford, in the State of Connecticut; do hereby petition you and through you every member of the present 66th Congress, 1st, to exercise your just and legal authority for the enforcement of the 13th-14th- & 15th amendments to the constitution of the United States; and 2nd to enact a law sufficiently strong and elaborate enough to more than cope with and utterly stamp out the lynching evil, which so shamefully continues to drench our beloved homeland in blood. And we further pray, that, for the sake of making our claims of democracy and religion a REALITY instead of hypocritical pretensions; that the foregoing be given immediate attention.
William J. B. [illegible]
Chairman, Ex-Corporal
Member of committee
" " "
A. Alexander Lewis
H. Franklyn Lewis
[illegible] D. James
J. Simon Scott
E. H. Collins
Rev. William O. Harris
Edwin A. Levitt
Original Format
Letter
Files
Collection
Citation
Citizens Committee of Stamford, “Citizens Committee of Stamford to Woodrow Wilson,” 1919 July 30, TI00157, Race and Segregation Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.