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What was the purpose of the proposed anti-lynching legislation that President Wilson refused to sign?

to help local police to enforce existing laws
to reduce lynching from a felony to a misdemeanor
to encourage African Americans to sue their attackers
to criminalize mob executions

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to criminalize mob executions

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