The United States Congress gave final approval Monday to legislation that would make lynching a federal hate crime in the United States for the first time, sending the bill to President Joe Biden for signature.
The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which has been in the works for years, is one of more than 200 pieces of legislation introduced in the United States during the last century to prohibit lynching.
It's named after a Black teenager whose gruesome murder in Mississippi in 1955 — and his mother's demand for an open coffin to show the world what had happened to her child — became a watershed moment in the Civil Rights movement.
The House overwhelmingly adopted a revamped edition last week, and the Senate unanimously ratified the bill late Monday. The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act "sends a clear and emphatic message that our nation will no longer ignore this shameful chapter of our history and that the full force of the United States federal government will always be brought to bear against those who commit this heinous act," according to the Congressman Mr. Rush.
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