(CIVIL RIGHTS) LYNCHING DYER BILL Time to Set This Clock Ba

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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) LYNCHING--DYER BILL. "Time to Set This Clock Back! America's Lynching Record." Pen and ink political cartoon, 8-5/8 x 7-3/8 inches, some staining and toning. Showing Uncle Sam, pushing the hands of a clock backward with one hand, in the other a copy of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. Np, circa 1920's

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The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, an attempt to make lynching a federal crime, was named for St. Louis Republican Senator Leonidas C. Dyer. It was raised by Dyer following the race riots in St. Louis and East St. Louis in 1917. While the bill gained favor among Republicans, Democrats in the "Solid South" rejected it. After more riots and the terrible "Red Summer" (s) of 1918 and 1919, the Dyer Bill was brought up again and voted on several times through 1922, '23, and '24, each time passing in the House, but failing in the heavily Southern Democrat Senate. Lynching was not made a federal crime until the year 2000.