antilynching act

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Rep. Bobby Rush’s Emmett Till Antilynching Act Passes U.S. Senate Unanimously

Silence DoGood - March 8, 2022

The Emmett Till Antilynching Act would, for the first time in U.S. history, designate lynching as a federal hate crime. Despite more than 200 attempts since 1900 to codify federal antilynching legislation, it has never previously been done.

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