Book World: How a Black man escaped a lynch mob - then sued its members
Book World: How a Black man escaped a lynch mob - then sued its members Marjoleine Kars, The Washington Post Feb. 19, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail By Ben Montgomery - - - In 2019, Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., introduced the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, named after the 14-year-old Chicago boy murdered in Mississippi in 1955. The legislation would at last make lynching a federal crime. The bill passed in the House only to stall in the Senate. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., thought its definition of lynching w...
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