Thursday, February 27, 2020

Congress makes lynching a federal crime, 65 years after Emmett Till

https://ift.tt/2fvAvHn previously failed to pass anti-lynching legislation nearly 200 times, starting with a bill introduced in 1900 by North Carolina Rep. George Henry White, the only black member of Congress at the time.

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