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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 progressive Democratic colleagues opposing it.
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 progressive Democratic colleagues opposing it.
[[Democrat]]ic 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>
[[Democrat]]ic senators led by Pat Harrison of Mississippi 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>
==1930s==
==1930s==