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Passage of the Dyer Bill was blocked by white Democratic senators from the South

Nearly 3,500 African Americans and 1,300 whites were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968, mostly from 1882 to 1920. The largest mass lynching in American history involved the lynching of eleven Italian immigrants in New Orleans,  in 1891.

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Passage of the Dyer Bill was blocked by white Democratic senators from the South

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  1. Nearly 3,500 African Americans and 1,300 whites were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968, mostly from 1882 to 1920.

  2. The largest mass lynching in American history involved the lynching of eleven Italian immigrants in New Orleans, in 1891.

  3. During the Antebellum, assertive African Americans and Latinos in the South West were the object of racial lynching.

  4. Lynching increased dramatically in the aftermath of the Civil War, after slavery had been abolished and recently freed black men gained the right to vote.

  5. The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was first introduced to United States Congress in 1918 by Republican Congressman  Leonidas C. Dyer of Missouri. The bill was passed by the United States House of Representatives in 1922.

  6. Passage of the Dyer Bill was blocked by white Democratic senators from the South •  The Dyer Bill later influenced anti-lynching legislation, including the Costigan Wagner Bill, both blocked by Senator William Borah.

  7. Roosevelt was also concerned about a provision of the Costigan-Wagner bill that called for the punishment of sheriffs who failed to protect their prisoners from lynch mobs. He believed political support of the white voters in the South would be lost by approving the bill and lose the 1936 presidential election. Excerpt from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Major Political Detail:

  8. Currently…

  9. An Orange, Fla., African-American family were shocked to find a KKK flier (next picture) on their doorstep this week, reports the Orlando Sentinel.Published on May 16, 2013

  10. KKK Cross-Burning Photo Stripped Of First Prize At County Fair In Ohio07/31/2013

  11. The Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Fla., will change its name from that of the Ku Klux Klan's first grand wizard at the start of the next school year in August 2014. Confederate Gen .Nathan Bedford Forrest served as the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

  12. On January 8, 2014, the Duval County School Board voted to change Nathan B. Forrest High to Westside High, to reflect the neighborhood.

  13. Meanwhile…the Tampa Bay Area has a haunt of its own…

  14. John Evans-was Lynched in St. Petersburg,Florida, on November 14, 1914

  15. Newspaper Articles…

  16. The crime made the front page. The John Evans was lynched on Tuesday, November 12, 1914. Petersburg, Florida The accusation of rape and murder was the result of a voice recognition

  17. The details of the crime and the city’s leader is printed on the last page along with a notice of where the victim’s (Sherman) body is to be buried. John Evans was not formally accused, he was guilty of rape and murder by association with a man named E. B. Tobin.

  18. Photographs were taken during the lynching and the Mayor expressed it was against the law to distribute them. The photograph surrendered the plate.

  19. Although implicated in the double crime, Tobin sits in jail as details of the lynching along with statements of outrage make it to the last page of the paper. Judge Robles expressed his dissatisfaction with the lynching

  20. In 1979, Mrs. Lulu Grant gives an account of the lynching of John Evans.

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