Lynching Now A Hate Crime In The U.S. 100 Years After 1St Proposed
The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act was named after the black teenager whose murder in Mississippi in the summer of 1955 marked a turning point in the civil rights era. Till, 14, was traveling from his Chicago home to visit relatives in Mississippi when he claimed he whistled at a white woman. Till was abducted, beaten and shot in the head. A large metal fan was tied around his neck with barbed wire before his body was thrown into a river....