The Dyer Bill influenced later anti-lynching legislation, including the Costigan-Wagner Bill.
In the 1920s, the Democratic platforms didn't even call for anti-lynching legislation as the Republican platforms did.
Despite numerous attempts to do so, federal anti-lynching legislation was consistently defeated.
As a Congressman, Ansorge was influential in the passing of the first-ever anti-lynching legislation.
As a lawmaker, he was instrumental in the passage of anti-lynching legislation and also sponsored bills providing pensions to civil servants.
Truman immediately terminated the meeting and declared the time was not right to propose anti-lynching legislation.
During his terms in the Senate in the 1930s he sponsored "anti-lynching" legislation, but such legislation never passed.
Caraway was a prohibitionist and voted against anti-lynching legislation along with other Southern Democratic Senators.
They hoped to influence president Woodrow Wilson to carry through on his election promises to African-American voters to implement anti-lynching legislation, and promote black causes.
Black leaders in the North had insisted that the Republican Party National platform for the presidential election of 1920 include support for anti-lynching legislation.
