By Democract Now Staff, Democracy Now A new report has uncovered shocking details about the history of lynchings in the United States and their legacy today. After five years of exhaustive research and interviews with local historians and descendants of lynching victims, the Equal Justice Initiative found white Southerners lynched nearly 4,000 black men, women […]
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Senate passes anti-lynching bill after nearly 200 failed attempts | The Washington Times
The Senate unanimously approved legislation Wednesday making mob lynching a federal civil rights crime, after a century of attempts.
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