Declaring Lynching a Crime Is Empty Symbolism
Mar 7th 2020 5:05am EST
After 120 years, 200 failed bills and at least 4,742 lives taken between 1882 and 1968, the House of Representatives voted last week, 410 to 4, to pass historic legislation that finally makes lynching a federal crime. Rep. Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.), who sponsored H.R. 35, the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, said it will “send a strong […]
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