Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill Passes the House of Representatives

On January 26, 1922, the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives, marking the first time either chamber of Congress voted for federal anti-lynching legislation. Championed by the NAACP through years of lobbying and Walter White's dangerous undercover investigations of lynchings, the bill was ultimately killed by a filibuster by Southern Democrats in the Senate—a defeat that galvanized the NAACP's legislative strategy for the next three decades.