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[[File:FDR Truman and KKK.jpeg|right|200px|thumb|1948 GOP Dewey poster. Democrats killed every effort to pass federal Anti-lynching legislation, including 3 times during the glory days of the New Deal coalition.]]
Federal '''Anti-lynching laws''' had been proposed over 200 times but never adopted.<ref>[https://fascinatingpolitics.com/2018/07/01/on-ideology-and-anti-lynching-legislation/ On Ideology and Anti-Lynching Legislation]. ''Mad Politics: The Bizarre, Fascinating, and Unknown of American Political History''. Retrieved June 8, 2021.</ref> The first time an anti-lynching bill passed the House was on January 26, 1922. The Dyer bill passed the House 230–120, with 221 [[Republican]]s, 8 Democrats, and 1 Socialist voting for, while 17 Republicans and 103 Democrats voted against.<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/67-2/h169 TO PASS H. R. 13.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved June 8, 2021.</ref> 95% of Republicans, 47% of Northern Democrats, and 1% of Southern Democrats voted for the measure, with Ben Johnson (D–Ky.) standing alone among them. In the [[Texas]] congressional delegation, only the moderately conservative <ref>[https://fascinatingpolitics.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/67th-congress.pdf 67th-congress.pdf]. ''Mad Politics: The Bizarre, Fascinating, and Unknown of American Political History''. Retrieved August 18, 2021.</ref><ref>[https://fascinatingpolitics.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/1921-23-mc-index-descriptions-1.pdf 67th House(1921-23) Votes]. ''Mad Politics: The Bizarre, Fascinating, and Unknown of American Political History''. Retrieved August 18, 2021.</ref> Republican [[Harry Wurzbach]] voted in the affirmative, with his racist liberal Democrat colleagues opposing it. [[Democrat]] senators succeeded in killing the bill.<ref>[https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/BAIC/Historical-Essays/Temporary-Farewell/Anti-Lynching-Legislation/ Anti-Lynching Legislation Renewed]. ''US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives''. Retrieved June 8, 2021.</ref><ref>[https://scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/stakeman/dyer-anti-lynching-bill Dyer Anti-lynching Bill]. ''The Walter White Project''. Retrieved June 8, 2021.</ref>
The next serious effort was the Costigan-Wagner Bill proposed during the [[New Deal]]. The sponsors were Senators Edward Costigan of Colorado and Robert Wagner of New York. The bill met the same fate as the Dyer bill at the hands of Democrats and was killed without having a definitive up or down vote.
