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The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act
[edit]On February 26th, 2020, The Anti-Lynching bill was passed by The House Of Representatives with a vote of 410-4. It outlaws the act of lynching, officially declaring it a hate crime. The bill describes lynching as "an act willfully done by a collection of people who assemble with the intent to commit violence on another human and then cause that person's death."[1]
Illinois Representative Bobby Rush first introduced this bill in January 2019, and has been in over 100 years in the making, either being stalled or blocked by the Senate. The bill is aptly named after Emmett Till, a young African American boy from Chicago who was lynched in August of 1955.
- ^ Rush, Bobby L. (2020-02-26). "Text - H.R.35 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Emmett Till Antilynching Act". www.congress.gov. Retrieved 2020-02-27.