President Biden signs the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, making lynching a federal hate crime.
after more than a century of failed efforts in Congress to pass similar legislation.
The bill is named after Till, a 14-year-old Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and shot in the head in 1955 after a white woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham, said he whistled at her and touched her in a Mississippi store. The Senate cleared the bill on March 7 by unanimous consent, indicating no opposition, after the House passed it on Feb. 28 in a 422-3 vote. The three votes against the measure came from GOP Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Chip Roy of Texas and Andrew S. Clyde of Georgia."Racial hate isn’t an old problem — it’s a persistent problem," Biden said in signing the antilynching act.
"From the bullets in the back of Ahmaud Arbery to countless other acts of violence, countless victims known and unknown, the same racial hatred that drove the mob to hang a noose brought that mob carrying torches out of the fields of Charlottesville just a few years ago," said Biden.The enacted legislation, introduced by Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill.
"For the first time in U.S. history, we are finally make lynching a FEDERAL hate crime. And we are doing it in Emmett Till’s name," Rush saidby the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit organization providing legal representation to prisoners who have been wrongly convicted, found that nearly 6,500 lynchings took place in the U.S. from 1865 to 1950.
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