The history of racial violence in the U.S. is the backdrop as President Joe Biden is expected to sign the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law.
FILE - Deborah Watts, a cousin of Emmett Till, the Black 14-year-old from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and lynched after he allegedly whistled at a white woman in her family store in rural Mississippi, holds a poster and taped thumb drive that allegedly has almost 300,000 signatures on a petition seeking a renewed probe of the 1955 lynching, March 11, 2022, in Jackson, Miss. Legislation that would make lynching a federal hate crime in the U.S.
The House approved the bill 422-3 with eight members not voting. The Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent. Illinois Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush introduced this version in January 2021. He had introduced a bill as well in January 2019 and the House passed the bill 410-4, but that one“Lynching has always been a terrorist weapon in the hands of racists in the history of our nation," Rush said in an interview earlier this year.
Acts of violence, including those where the race of the victim is a factor, are covered under state laws, according to Matthew Countryman, Afroamerican and African Studies chair at the University of Michigan.
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