Anti-Lynching Law, a Century Later

 

N.Y. Times reports the anti-lynching bill was fanally approved:

WASHINGTON — President Biden on Tuesday signed a bill making lynching a federal crime, for the first time explicitly criminalizing an act that had come to symbolize the grim history of racism in the United States.

“Lynching was pure terror to enforce the lie that not everyone, not everyone belongs in America, not everyone is created equal,” Mr. Biden said, speaking to civil rights leaders and others in the Rose Garden of the White House.

 

There were three NO votes against the bill in the House...three Republicans...but all seven of the Alabama U.S. House members voted for it, including the six Republicans.

WATCH the signing ceremony on youtube HERE.

Legislation to make lynching a crime was first introduced 100 years ago.

Read an essay by a woman who took her pre-school daughter to Montgomery to see the EJI facility HERE.