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The '''Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill''', commonly known as the '''Dyer Bill''', was [[anti-lynching legislation]] introduced in the [[United States House of Representatives]] in 1918<ref name=blackpast>Jager, Steven J. (August 19, 2012). [https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/dyer-anti-lynching-bill-1922/ Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill (1922)]. ''BlackPast''. Retrieved May 28, 2023.</ref> by "Old Guard"<ref>China Monthly Review (1932). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Millard_s_Review_of_the_Far_East/9T4_AAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=leonidas+dyer+%22old+guard%22&dq=leonidas+dyer+%22old+guard%22&printsec=frontcover Millard's Review of the Far East: Vol. 62], p. 505. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 28, 2023.</ref> Republican congressman Leonidas C. Dyer of [[Missouri]]'s 12th congressional district, among the regions in the U.S. plagued with antiblack race riots in the late 1910s. Although eventually passing the House in 1922 with rallying support by the [[NAACP]], it faced opposition in the [[U.S. Senate]] by Southern Democrats who, with the aid of progressive Republican maverick [[William E. Borah]], effectively blocked the legislation over weak support by the Republican majority.<ref name=walterwhiteproject>[https://scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/stakeman/dyer-anti-lynching-bill Dyer Anti-lynching Bill]. ''The Walter White Project''. Retrieved May 28, 2023.</ref>

The '''Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill''', commonly known as the '''Dyer Bill''', was [[anti-lynching legislation]] introduced in the [[United States House of Representatives]] in 1918<ref name=blackpast>Jager, Steven J. (August 19, 2012). [https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/dyer-anti-lynching-bill-1922/ Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill (1922)]. ''BlackPast''. Retrieved May 28, 2023.</ref> by "Old Guard"<ref>China Monthly Review (1932). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Millard_s_Review_of_the_Far_East/9T4_AAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=leonidas+dyer+%22old+guard%22&dq=leonidas+dyer+%22old+guard%22&printsec=frontcover Millard's Review of the Far East: Vol. 62], p. 505. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 28, 2023.</ref> Republican congressman Leonidas C. Dyer of [[Missouri]]'s 12th congressional district, among the regions in the U.S. plagued with antiblack race riots in the late 1910s. Although eventually passing the House in 1922 with rallying support by the [[NAACP]], it faced opposition in the [[U.S. Senate]] by Southern Democrats who, with the aid of progressive Republican maverick [[William E. Borah]], effectively blocked the legislation over weak support by the Republican majority.<ref name=walterwhiteproject>[https://scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/stakeman/dyer-anti-lynching-bill Dyer Anti-lynching Bill]. ''The Walter White Project''. Retrieved May 28, 2023.</ref>

President [[Warren G. Harding]], despite his reported "lack of familiarity" on the decibel levels of racist atrocities facing black people nationwide as a result of Progressive Era–inspired repressions,<ref>Francis, Megan Ming (April 21, 2014). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Civil_Rights_and_the_Making_of_the_Moder/VzQZAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=warren+harding+anti-lynching&printsec=frontcover Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State], p. 82. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 31, 2023.</ref> endorsed the Dyer Bill during the [[United States presidential election, 1920|1920 U.S. presidential election]].<ref>October 21. [https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/harding-publicly-condemns-lynching This Day In History: President Harding publicly condemns lynching]. ''History Channel''. Retrieved May 28, 2023.</ref>

President [[Warren G. Harding]], despite his reported "lack of familiarity" on the decibel levels of racist atrocities facing black people nationwide as a result of Progressive Era–inspired repressions,<ref>Francis, Megan Ming (April 21, 2014). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Civil_Rights_and_the_Making_of_the_Moder/VzQZAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=warren+harding+anti-lynching&printsec=frontcover Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State], p. 82. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 31, 2023.</ref> persistently endorsed the Dyer Bill during the [[United States presidential election, 1920|1920 U.S. presidential election]]<ref>October 21. [https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/harding-publicly-condemns-lynching This Day In History: President Harding publicly condemns lynching]. ''History Channel''. Retrieved May 28, 2023.</ref> and afterwards, vowing to sign it the moment it reaches his desk if passed by Congress.<ref name=talbert>Talbert, Jesse (2022). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/When_Good_Government_Meant_Big_Governmen/Z9UuEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=william+borah+dyer+bill&pg=PT64&printsec=frontcover When Good Government Meant Big Government: The Quest to Expand Federal Power, 1913–1933]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 31, 2023.</ref>

Political observers have noted the defeat of the Dyer Bill as the onset of black disenchantment with the Republican Party due to its lack of commitment on the national level in the 1920s—present in both the "Old Guard" whose ranks abandoned civil rights for business priorities since the [[Gilded Age]] as well as insurgent progressives—that continued in subsequent decades. Although a majority of black support for the GOP continued in the 1920s, the Northern bloc shifted during the [[New Deal]] era for economic motivations, and the Southern bloc in the 1960s when bribed by the [[Great Society]] which established the ''de facto'' modern "[[Democratic plantation]]."

Political observers have noted the defeat of the Dyer Bill as the onset of black disenchantment with the Republican Party due to its lack of commitment on the national level in the 1920s—present in both the "Old Guard" whose ranks abandoned civil rights for business priorities since the [[Gilded Age]] as well as insurgent progressives—that continued in subsequent decades. Although a majority of black support for the GOP continued in the 1920s, the Northern bloc shifted during the [[New Deal]] era for economic motivations, and the Southern bloc in the 1960s when bribed by the [[Great Society]] which established the ''de facto'' modern "[[Democratic plantation]]."