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The Anti-Lynching Crusaders were a group of women also under the NAACP that were mainly focused on gaining money to pass the Dyer Bill and to try to prevent lynching from happening.[1] Georgia Douglas Johnson was a playwright who wrote a lot of poems on anti-lynching. She as well as other poet writer contributed to the anti-lynching movement like Angelina Weld Grimke, Countee Cullen, Ida B. Wells who also was the head of the Anti-Lynching movement. There were also many men writer like Langston Hughes, Alain Locke, Louis Alexander and many more who also formed part the Anti-Lynching Movement. Georgia Douglas Johnson wrote plays about the lynching and Anti-Lynching movement, though she decided to not publicized them.[2]

  1. ^ Rucker, Walker (2007). ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN RACE RIOTS. Geenwood Press. p. 64.
  2. ^ Stephens, Judith (Summer 2005). "Art, Activism, and Uncompromising Attitude in Georgia Douglas Johnson's Lynching Plays". African American Review. vol. 39, no. 1/2, : 87–102. {{cite journal}}: |volume= has extra text (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)