Emmett Till Bill
Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley are posthumously being honored with a Congressional Gold Medal.
The House's lopsided 42-3 historic passage of an anti-lynching bill named for Emmett Till was opposed by Texas Rep. Chip Roy, who has previously called the racist vigilante act "a metaphor for justice.”
The family of Emmett Till arrived in Washington D.C. Monday night to find justice for Till’s death nearly 8 decades after he was murdered at the age 14 for whistling at a White woman. Deborah Watt, Till’s cousin and co-founder of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation is set to meet with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions […]
The new legislation will allow civil rights cold cases that happened prior to 1970 to be reopened.
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