Washington, April 16 (AP)—a bill to make lynching an offense under the federal law was proposed today in a bill by Representative Berger, socialist, Wisconsin. It would prescribe punishment for individual participating in lynchings, and officials who fail to take necessary precautions against lynchings.
Mr. Berger said the measure was prompted by the “failure of the Republican party to carry out its 1924 platform pledges for enactment of a federal anti-lynching law.”
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Friday, April 16, 1926
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The United States does now have a federal anti lynching law. The Emmett Till Antilynching Act was passed and signed into law on March 29, 2022.
It designates lynching as a federal hate crime and amends 18 U.S.C. § 249 to allow federal prosecution when a conspiracy to commit a hate crime results in death or serious bodily injury. It carries penalties of up to 30 years in federal prison.
Congress tried over 200 times across more than a century to pass federal anti lynching legislation, but filibusters repeatedly blocked it. The first attempt was in 1900, and the most famous early effort—the Dyer Anti Lynching Bill—passed the House in 1922 but was filibustered in the Senate.
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