Joe Biden to sign Emmett Till bill making lynching a hate crime
The Metro says President Joe Biden will sign the first federal legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime into law on Tuesday.
The legislation is named for 14-year-old Emmett Till, who was murdered in a racist attack in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of whistling at a white woman. The brutal murder drew national attention to the violence faced by African Americans in America, and went on to become a civil rights rallying cry.
Anti-lynching legislation had been introduced in Congress over 200 times, and never before passed into law . But earlier this month the bill was unanimously passed by the Senate.
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