Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Opinion | Why did it take so long to make lynching a hate crime? - The Washington Post
…The legislation passed by Congress and soon to be signed into law is named in memory of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old from Chicago who was visiting relatives in Mississippi in 1955 when he was lynched after being accused of leering at a White woman. Not only did the two White men who killed him get acquitted, but they openly bragged about how they killed Till. If only there had been a federal law that could have been used to try to hold them to account…
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