Biden Signs Law Finally Making Lynching A Hate Crime
On Tuesday, U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law legislation finally making lynchings a federal hate crime
It ends more than a century of delays in outlawing the symbol of what Biden calls “pure terror.”
Anyone convicted under the new law will face up to 30 years in prison.
Researchers say there were thousands of lynchings that often went unpunished between the end of the Civil War in 1865 and 1950.
The new law is named after Emmett Till, a 14-year old African American whose brutal murder galvanized the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1950s.
Tuesday’s signing was also attended by Vice President Kamala Harris, the first Black woman in the post, and Michelle Duster, great-granddaughter of pioneering Black journalist and anti-lynching campaigner Ida B. Wells.
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