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Anti-Lynching Legislation Major legislation: Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill (1918–22) Costigan–Wagner Act (1934–35) Gavagan–Van Nuys–Wagner Act (1937–38) Copeland rider amendments (1937) Gavagan–Fish Anti-Lynching Bill (1940) Leaders: George H. White Leonidas C. Dyer Walter F. White Edward P. Costigan Robert F. Wagner Frederick Van Nuys Joseph A. Gavagan Royal Copeland Hamilton Fish, III Opponents: William E. Borah George Norris Franklin D. Roosevelt Joseph T. Robinson Richard Russell, Jr. Theodore Bilbo Tom Connally Allen J. Ellender James F. Byrnes