Dyer Bill

By RagingYeti14
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    3,436 Americans are Lynched

  • Leonidas C. Dyer is Elected to Congress

    Leonidas C. Dyer is Elected to Congress
    Photo: Representative Leonidas Carstephen Dyer of St. Louis, MO.
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    WWI

  • East St. Louis Race Riots Begin

    East St. Louis Race Riots Begin
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch of July 3, 1917 The photograph shows blacks fleeing East St. Louis. An article by reporter Carlos F. Hurd described the carnage. His lead sentence was: "For an hour and a half last evening, I saw the massacre of helpless negroes at Broadway and Fourth Street, in downtown East St. Louis, where a black skin was a death warrant."

  • The Dyer Bill is Introduced

    The Dyer Bill is Introduced
    Photo: Speech given by Leonidas Dyer after he introduced the bill.

  • President Warren G. Harding is Inaugurated

    President Warren G. Harding is Inaugurated
    Photo: President Harding's inauguaration at the White House, March 4, 1921.

  • The Dyer Bill Passes the House of Representatives

    The Dyer Bill Passes the House of Representatives
    New York Times, January 26, 1922.

  • The Dyer Bill is Filibustered in the Senate

    The Dyer Bill is Filibustered in the Senate
    New York Times, December 3, 1922.