President Joe Biden will sign the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law on Tuesday.
The legislation will make lynching a federal hate crime.
The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act was among some 200 bills introduced over the past century that have tried to ban lynching in America. The bill would make it possible to prosecute as a lynching when a conspiracy to commit a hate crime results in death or serious bodily injury.The bill is named after Emmett Till, a Black 14-year-old who was kidnapped, beaten and shot in the head in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi.
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