Senate Passes Anti-Lynching Bill, , Heads to Biden Next.
On March 7, the U.S. Senate passed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which was also passed by the House last month.
The bill, named after 14-year-old Till who was brutally murdered while visiting family in Mississippi in 1955.
Would make lynching a federal hate crime, punishable by up to 30 years in prison.
NPR reports it's taken over 100 years for Congress to pass such legislation.
Sen.
Scott said he looked "forward to President Biden signing the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law very, very soon.".
According to the Equal Justice Initiative, 12 Southern states carried out 4,081 lynchings from 1877 to 1950.
The initiative hopes to inspire the public to build memorials to , "correct our distorted national narrative about this period of racial terror in American history while directly addressing the harms borne by the African American community, particularly survivors who lived through the lynching era.".
The initiative hopes to inspire the public to build memorials to , "correct our distorted national narrative about this period of racial terror in American history while directly addressing the harms borne by the African American community, particularly survivors who lived through the lynching era."
