President Biden signed into law legislation that makes lynching a federal hate crime — a historic bill that took more than 100 years to arrive on the desk of the U.S. president.
, however, found that of 4,743 lynchings that occurred between 1882 and 1968, 72% of the victims were Black.
Days after that interaction, Bryant’s husband and his half-brother kidnapped, tortured and beat Till, leaving his body in the Tallahatchie River.on having an open casket at the funeral to show the world the brutal beating of her only son. In 2020, Paul said of earlier anti-lynching legislation: “This bill would cheapen the meaning of lynching by defining it so broadly as to include a minor bruise or abrasion. Our national history of racial terrorism demands more seriousness of us than that.”
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