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Ugly subject the teaching of whose history should not ceded to liars and collectivists on the left!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas_C._Dyer
Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer (June 11, 1871 – December 15, 1957) was an American politician, reformer, civil rights activist, and military officer who served 11 terms in the U.S. Congress as a Republican Representative from Missouri from 1911 to 1933. In 1898, enrolling in the U.S. Army as a private, Dyer served notably in the Spanish–American War; and was promoted to Colonel at the war’s end.
Horrified by the race riots in Saint Louis and East Saint Louis in 1917 and the high rate of reported lynchings in the South, in 1918 Dyer was notable for proposing the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. In 1920, the Republican Party supported such legislation in its platform from the National Convention. In January 1922, Dyer’s bill was passed by the House, which approved it by a wide margin due to “insistent countrywide demand”.[2] The bill was defeated by the white Democratic voting bloc of the South in filibusters in the Senate in December 1922, in 1923 and 1924.
The failed attempts to pass anti-lynching laws
Anti-lynching bills and resolutions, by year
introduced, in the House and the Senate
1900
December 1901 The first time
anti-lynching measures are
presented to congress.
1905
1910
1917 Leonidas C. Dyer presents
one of the most famous anti-
lynching bills in the House.
He introduces it again in 1920,
1921, 1923, 1925, 1927, and 1929.
1915
1920
1922 Dyer’s bill is passed by
the House, but doesn’t make
it through the Senate.
1925
1930
1935
The House passed bills in
937 and 1940, but they were
killed by Senate filibusters.
1940
1945
1950
1952 Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.,
the former president’s son,
tried and failed to pass anti-
lynching legislation in 1952,
1953, 1955, and 1957.
1955
1960
1965
1970
2018
2018 Over 100 years since congress
first tried to pass anti-lynching
legislation, senators Harris, Booker
and Scott are trying again.