1. The First 150 Years of Making Love Visible Standing Up
November 1865 to November 2015
Mar 13, 2016

2. Celebrating All Year Long!
The First 150 Years of Making Love Visible Fireside Chats
April 10th after the Service!
More time for:
Sharing Stories
Asking Questions
Deeper descriptions

3. Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill
Leonidas C. Dyer
U.S. House of Representative from Missouri

4. Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill (1922 version)
AN ACT To assure to persons within the jurisdiction of every State the equal protection of the laws, and to punish the crime of lynching…
Sec 2: … if any State or governmental subdivision… fails, neglects, or refuses to provide and maintain protection to the life of any person within its jurisdiction against a mob or riotous assemblage, such State shall by reason of such failure, neglect, or refusal be deemed to have denied to such person the equal protection of the laws of the State, and to the end that such protection as is guaranteed to the citizens of the United States by its Constitution shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding five years or by a fine of not exceeding $5,000, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Sec 3 & 4: … who shall conspire, combine, or confederate with any person to put such prisoner to death, or to suffer such prisoner to be taken or obtained from his custody or control for the purpose of being put to death, shall be guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment for life or not less than five years.
Sec 5: … failed, neglected, or refused to proceed with due diligence to apprehend and prosecute the participants in the mob or riotous assemblage, forfeit $10,000, for the use of the family of the person so put to death… shall not be necessary that the jurisdictional allegations herein required shall be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, and it shall be sufficient if such allegations are sustained by a preponderance of the evidence.

5. Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill
Rev. Charles Pease
FUCSJ Minister
Arthur M. Free
U.S. House of Representative
from San José

6. Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill
House of Representatives passed bill:
January 26, 1922
US Senate kills bill Dec 2, 1922
with week-long filibuster:
New York Times Dec 2, 1922

7. Brooke Hart

8. Brooke Hart Sheriff William J. Emig Harold Thurmond John Holmes

9. California Governor James “Sunny Jim” Rolph, Jr.

10. FUCSJ Responds: Please stand up and read the emboldened text aloud together:
Branding the recent lynching here as a
“dastardly and cowardly crime,” the Unitarian Church had today passed the following resolution:
We, the members and friends of the Unitarian Church, hereby and herewith present to our community our sentiment and conviction in regard to the disgrace which came to our city Sunday night, November 26.
We sincerely regret the attitude of Governor Rolph, and wish to state that we believe it to be entirely contrary to the principles of the fathers of our country, the principles of civilized people, and the teaching of the Great Teacher of Galilee. In adopting such an attitude, Governor Rolph has definitely violated his oath of office.
Our admiration goes out to those officials and especially to Sheriff Emig, Jailer Buffington and their assistants, who pleaded with the mob and who jeopardized their own lives in trying to prevent the hanging, but were helpless.
Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to the Hart family, the Holmes family and the Thurmond family, whose grief has been deepened by the action of an irresponsible, fiendish, take-the-law-in-your-own-hands mob which forms a very small and inferior part of the citizenship of San Jose.
Signed BEN F. WILSON, Minister, The Unitarian Church of San Jose.

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California Room
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