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Previous attempts to introduce antilynching legislation at the federal level had met with no success. In 1902 Rep. George White of North Carolina, the most recent black man to have been elected to Congress from a southern state, had struggled for the passage of such a bill. In 1921, even with the support he received from the Commission On Interracial Cooperation and the Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, Congressman Leonidas Dyer was unable to overcome opposition to a lynch law in the Senate. It fell, finally, to the NAACP to take up the cause, and that it did with a strategy designed to mobilize support through a program of public education.
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