> Regarding Truman: > In September 23, 1946, Robeson and a delegation representing the ACAL met with President Harry Truman to push for an anti-lynching agenda

> Regarding Truman: > In September 23, 1946, Robeson and a delegation representing the ACAL met with President Harry Truman to push for an anti-lynching agenda. Robeson demanded that Truman issue a public statement expressing his views on lynching and recommending a set of legislative and educational measures aimed at eradicating mob violence. Truman turned down these requests, claiming that timing and political circumstances made these measures difficult to implement at the moment. You make it sounds like he didn't so anything, but the GP comment you're responding to shows that he did what they were requesting about a year after they asked: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1948-harry-s-truman-special-message-congress-civil-rights-2/ https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1948-harr...: > By 1947 the question of black civil rights in the South had become a national issue when a committee President Harry S. Truman appointed to study the issue called for legislation which among other things would to protect voting rights for Southern blacks and provide federal protection against lynching. In response to the report President Truman sent a special message to Congress on the issue on February 2, 1948. That message, the first by a sitting president to address the question of black civil rights, appears below. Sounds a lot like a "public statement expressing his views on lynching and recommending a set of legislative and educational measures aimed at eradicating mob violence", no? Did you even scan, let alone read, the link you were responding to?