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What the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act means for the decades-long fight for civil rights
What the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act means for the decades-long fight for civil rights
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20 minutes
Released:
Apr 1, 2022
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Podcast episode
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President Biden on Tuesday signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law. The law makes lynching a federal hate crime for the first time in U.S. history. The bill's named after Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy who was brutally murdered in 1955 by a group of white men in Mississippi. His mother's decision to have an open casket funeral for him made a huge impact on the civil rights fight.
Released:
Apr 1, 2022
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Podcast episode
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