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Photo: Representative Leonidas Carstephen Dyer of St. Louis, MO.
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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."
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Photo: Speech given by Leonidas Dyer after he introduced the bill.
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Photo: President Harding's inauguaration at the White House, March 4, 1921.
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New York Times, January 26, 1922.
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New York Times, December 3, 1922.