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Harding supported Congressman Leonidas Dyer's federal anti-lynching bill, known as the Dyer Bill, which passed the House of Representatives on January 26, 1922.

The bill was defeated in the Senate by a Democratic filibuster.

Harding had previously spoken out publicly against lynching on October 21, 1921.

Congress had not debated a civil rights bill since the 1890 Federal Elections Bill.