In the early 1900s, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People strongly urged the federal government to

The NAACP was founded in 1909 to fight racial discrimination and advance civil rights. In the early 1900s, it strongly campaigned for federal anti-lynching legislation so the government would punish those responsible for lynchings. Therefore, the correct choice is punish lynch mobs.

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