HOUSE PASSES BILL TO MAKE LYNCHING A FEDERAL CRIME IN HISTORIC VOTE - MMCxchange https://mmcxchange.com/ Thu, 21 May 2026 09:48:28 -0400 en-US hourly 1 Baltimore Times RSS Hub HOUSE PASSES BILL TO MAKE LYNCHING A FEDERAL CRIME IN HISTORIC VOTE https://mmcxchange.com/detail/house-passes-bill-to-make-lynching-a-federal-crime-in-historic-vote_1777207506 Wed, 26 Feb 2020 23:37:27 -0500 https://mmcxchange.com/detail/house-passes-bill-to-make-lynching-a-federal-crime-in-historic-vote_1777207506 HOUSE PASSES BILL TO MAKE LYNCHING A FEDERAL CRIME IN HISTORIC VOTE

Emmett Till WIKIMEDIA COMMONSLawmakers took a historic vote on Wednesday when the House of Representatives passed legislation to make lynching a federal crime. The House passed HR 35, anti-lynching legislation introduced by Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois, called the Emmett Till Antilynching Act. Fourteen-year-old Till was brutally murdered in a racist attack in Mississippi in 1955, an event that drew national attention to the atrocities and violence that African Americans have faced in the…]]>