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2 unusual facts about American Anti-Imperialist League


Gamaliel Bradford

Gamaliel Bradford (banker), American banker from Boston who helped organize the American Anti-Imperialist League

Insular Cases

The cases were in essence the court's response to a major issue of the 1900 presidential election and the American Anti-Imperialist League, summarized by the phrase "Does the Constitution follow the flag?"


American Anti-Slavery Society

President Andrew Jackson swept aside the states' rights arguments and threatened to use the army to enforce federal laws.

Agitation increased with the publication of David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in 1829, Nat Turner's slave rebellion in 1831 and Andrew Jackson's handling of the nullification crisis that same year.

Félix Pita Rodríguez

An active communist, Rodriguez helped to found the Ibero-American Anti-Fascist Committee during the Spanish Civil War.

Frito Bandito

Pressure from the National Mexican-American Anti-Defamation Committee and others prompted an update to the character; his gold tooth and stubble were eliminated and his hair combed.

Iranian Anti-Vivisection Association

IAVA is now working in partnership with the International Network for Humane Education (InterNICHE) and is also supported by other organizations such as American Anti-Vivisection Society's educational branch (Animalearn) and International Association Against Painful Experiments on Animals (IAAPEA) and Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

National Anti-Slavery Standard

The National Anti-Slavery Standard was the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, established in 1840 under the editorship of Lydia Maria Child and David Lee Child.

Peter Williams, Jr.

That same year he joined the American Anti-Slavery Society and was selected as one of the African-American leaders on the executive board of the interracial group.

In 1833 he founded the Phoenix Society, a mutual aid society for African Americans; that year he was also elected to the executive board of the interracial American Anti-Slavery Society.

Robert Bernard Hall

Hall was one of the twelve original members of Garrison’s Anti-Slavery Society.


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