House votes to make lynching a federal crime, 65 years after Mississippi case
WASHINGTON — Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, the House has approved legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law. The bill, introduced by Illinois Rep. Bobby L. Rush and named after Till, comes 120 years after Congress first considered …
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