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The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill
The Root

1922

The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill

The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill,making lynching a federal crime, passes the U.S. House of Representatives due to the efforts of the NAACP and journalist Ida B. Wells. It was defeated in a Southern Democratic filibuster in the Senate.

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