Lawmakers will take a historic vote on Wednesday when the House of Representatives takes up legislation to make lynching a federal crime.
The House will vote on 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 United States and became a civil rights rallying cry.
The House vote is expected to pave the way for the anti-lynching legislation to ultimately go to President Donald Trump for his signature, although the exact process for reconciling the two bills so that a final version can be sent to the White House is not yet clear. The bills will still have different titles and numbers, meaning that additional action will be necessary in one of the two chambers before the legislation can go to the President's desk.
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