Petition to the Senate Requesting the Judiciary Committee Grant a Hearing

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Description

This petition is signed by Frederick Douglass, Francis J, Grimkie, Walter R. Brooks, and Mary Church Terrell. Referring to lynching, it requests a Judiciary Committee hearing on the “lawless outrages committed in some of the Southern States upon persons accused of crime, but who are denied the ordinary means of establishing their innocence by due process of law.”

Transcript

United States Senate,
WASHINGTON, D. C., , 189 .

[handwritten] The undersigned citizens of the United States pray the Hon. Senate of the United States to instruct the Judiciary Committee of the Senate to grant a hearing of a statement in respect to the
lawless outrages committed in some of the Southern States upon persons accused of crimes, but who are denied
the ordinary means of establishing their innocence by due
process of law.

[signed] Frederick Douglass
[signed] Francis J. Grinke
[signed] Walter R. Brooks
[signed] Mary Church Terrell.

52d Congress
2d Sess.
Memoriae

Citizens of the United States praying a hearing before the Judiciary Committee in respect to the lawless outrages committed in some of the Southern States upon persons accused of crime.

Feb 3 1893
Referred to the Committee on Judiciary

[different handwritting] 52A-J42
142
Hoar
Judy

Citation

This primary source comes from the Records of the U.S. Senate.

National Archives Identifier: 7741394

Full Citation: Petition to the Senate Requesting the Judiciary Committee Grant a Hearing; ca. 1/1893; Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents of the Committee on the Judiciary from the 52nd Congress; (SEN52A-J14.4); Committee Papers, 1816 – 2011; Records of the U.S. Senate, Record Group 46; National Archives Building, Washington, DC. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/petition-requesting-hearing/, April 1, 2026]

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