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==Antithesis to civil rights==
==Antithesis to civil rights==
[[File:FDRoosevelt by Perskie.png|thumb|right|240px|FDR opposed anti-lynching legislation to seek support for his court-packing proposal from racist Southern Democrats.]]
:{{see also|Gavagan–Van Nuys–Wagner Act}}
:{{see also|Gavagan–Van Nuys–Wagner Act}}
In 1937, the U.S. House overwhelmingly passed an anti-lynching bill, the Gavagan–Wagner Act, which the U.S. Senate did not take up that year due to its primary business concerned with the Judicial Procedures Reform Act, President Roosevelt's "court-packing plan." The very pro–New Deal, Democratic House sponsor of the anti-lynching bill, [[Joseph A. Gavagan]], noted Roosevelt's shunning of the Act:<ref>Malkiel, Nancy Joan Weiss (1983). [https://archive.org/details/farewelltopartyo00weis Farewell to the Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the Age of FDR]. ''Internet Archive''. Retrieved June 5, 2023.</ref>
In 1937, the U.S. House overwhelmingly passed an anti-lynching bill, the Gavagan–Wagner Act, which the U.S. Senate did not take up that year due to its primary business concerned with the Judicial Procedures Reform Act, President Roosevelt's "court-packing plan." The very pro–New Deal, Democratic House sponsor of the anti-lynching bill, [[Joseph A. Gavagan]], noted Roosevelt's shunning of the Act:<ref>Malkiel, Nancy Joan Weiss (1983). [https://archive.org/details/farewelltopartyo00weis Farewell to the Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the Age of FDR]. ''Internet Archive''. Retrieved June 5, 2023.</ref>