Congressman Bobby Rush introduced Emmett Till Antilynching Act, named after the Chicago teenager who was murdered in Mississippi.
CHICAGO -- The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill by a vote of 422-3 Monday night making lynching a federal hate crime.
"Hopefully people will think twice before they go out and commit a crime against a different person because of their race or gender or lifestyle," said Ollie Gordon, Emmett Till's cousin.Gordon lived in the same Woodlawn home as his cousin until 1955, when Till was brutally tortured and killed while visiting relatives in Mississippi. His death at age 14 sparked the civil rights movement, but repeated attempts over the years to make lynching a federal crime failed.
The DuSable Museum currently has an installation called"Unresolved" that highlights the cases of more than 150 people who were killed during the civil rights movement. Irmer said this latest step toward making lynching a federal hate crime is long overdue.
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