Detroit Evening Report, March 29, 2022: Biden signs Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act
This Mississippi Freedom Trail Marker in Money, Mississippi, recounts the events leading up to the murder of Emmett Till.
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President Joe Biden has signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act. The legislation makes lynching a federal hate crime. The NAACP and others have been working for more than a century to make lynching a federal crime. Emmett Till was killed in August 1955 in Money, Mississippi. His body was dumped into a nearby river. The trial of his killers garnered national attention. Till’s mother held an open casket funeral for her teenage son to show the world how horribly he died. His death was a pivotal moment in the modern civil rights movement. Tuskegee University says more than 3,400 African-Americans were lynched in the South between 1882 and 1968. President Biden says some forms of racial terror continue to exist in the U.S., justifying the need for this legislation.
Other headlines for March 29, 2022:
- Former president and CEO of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra has died
- State to begin reporting COVID-19 numbers just once per week
- Detroit selected as the site of the 2024 NFL Draft
- Detroiters should plan to take some extra time for their morning commute Wednesday
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