• A vigilance committee is a group of private citizens who take it upon themselves to administer law and order or exercise power in places where they consider...
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    The Whitechapel Vigilance Committee was a group of local civilian volunteers who patrolled the streets of London's Whitechapel district during the period...
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  • Committee of Vigilance may refer to: Committee of Vigilance and Safety formed at Faneuil Hall New York Committee of Vigilance, group that assisted the...
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    The "From Hell letter" received by George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee came with half of a preserved human kidney, purportedly taken from...
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    The San Francisco Committee of Vigilance was a vigilante group formed in 1851. The catalyst for its formation was the criminality of the Sydney Ducks gang...
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    in music hall restoration. He was the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee during the Whitechapel murders, including the killings ascribed to...
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  • reforming their vigilance work. It was set up by the Government of India Resolution on 11 February 1964, on the recommendations of the Committee on Prevention...
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  • time Vigilance (video game), a 1998 PC game by SegaSoft Vigilance committee, a group of private citizens formed to administer law Vigilance committee (trade...
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    The Boston Vigilance Committee (1841–1861) was an abolitionist organization formed in Boston, Massachusetts, to protect escaped slaves from being kidnapped...
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    London Police, and private organisations such as the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee were actively involved in the search for the perpetrator or perpetrators...
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  • 1863–1864, Montana Vigilantes followed the model of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance that existed in 1850s California to bring order to lawless communities...
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  • much more likely to be neutral or pro-British. The San Francisco Committee of Vigilance was a vigilante group formed in 1851 and reorganized in 1856 in...
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  • The Chatham Vigilance Committee was formulated before the American Civil War by black abolitionists in the Chatham, Ontario area to save people from being...
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  • preserved human kidney to George Lusk, the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, in October 1888. The author of this letter claimed to be the unidentified...
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  • A vigilance committee is an unofficial grouping within a trade union, formed for the purpose of putting pressure on that union's leadership to pursue...
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    along the railroad and a founder of the vigilance committee in Philadelphia. Its executive was the Vigilant Committee of Philadelphia and its first president...
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  • plot to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944. In 1835, a so-called "vigilance committee" in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, ran a show but legally meaningless...
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    showed their own weapons. The Committee of Vigilance operated as a secret society. As the activities of the Committee of Vigilance became increasingly outrageous...
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    abolitionist in New York who resisted slavery by his participation in a Committee of Vigilance and the Underground Railroad to help fugitive slaves reach free...
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    postmarked 15 October, was later sent to the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, George Lusk. The author of this letter claimed the section of kidney...
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    in 1856 resulted in the establishment of the second San Francisco Vigilance Committee and changed the politics of the city. King was among the first newspapermen...
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    journal was renamed Vigilante in 1918 to reflect his campaign for a Vigilance Committee. In 1918, Captain Harold Sherwood Spencer became assistant editor...
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    helped transport slaves to Canada. He was a member of the Albany Vigilance Committee, which organized to help fugitive slaves and solicited donations...
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    and rural women. She is one of the founding members of People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) and a founder of Savitri Bai Phule Mahila...
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  • The Anti Horse Thief Association was a vigilance committee, organized at Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1859 to provide protection against marauders thriving...
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  • Loyalty) was an American volunteer nationalist secret society and vigilance committee active circa 1917–1918, claiming responsibility for violence against...
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  • The Sarasota Assassination Society, also known as the Sarasota Vigilance Committee, was a late 19th-century secret organization established by Alfred...
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  • Public Safety (disambiguation) Vigilance committee This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Committee of Safety. If an internal link...
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    German immigrants, who were among the poorest classes. A secret Vigilance Committee was formed to monitor their activities, and in particular to prevent...
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    stores to buy large tracts of real estate. He helped form the first vigilance committee in San Francisco and was disfellowshiped from the Church of Jesus...
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