Emmett Till
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U.S. Congress passes 1st ever bill that makes lynching a federal hate crimeYears in the making, the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act is among some 200 bills that have been introduced over the past century that have tried to ban lynching in America.PoliticsMar 7, 2022
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U.S. probe into 1955 lynching of Emmett Till ends with no new chargesCarolyn Bryant Donham was accused of lying about whether Till, a 14-year-old Black boy, ever touched her, which sparked his brutal killing by two white men in Mississippi.CrimeDec 6, 2021
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White nationalists caught on security cameras filming at U.S. lynching victim memorialThey are seeing running away when a security alarm sounds.WorldNov 3, 2019
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U.S. reopens probe of Emmett Till’s brutal slaying that inspired civil rights movementThe Justice Department told Congress in a report in March it is reinvestigating Till's slaying in Money, Mississippi, in 1955 after receiving "new information."CrimeJul 12, 2018
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