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Till was just 14 years old in 1955 when he was brutally murdered for
allegedly flirting with a white woman inside her family’s grocery store.
Today, federal anti-lynching laws still don’t exist.
reminder Emmett Till, a Black boy, was kidnapped, shot& bludgeoned to death by 2 white men after he was accused of whistling at white woman Carolyn Bryant in '55. men were acquitted.Till was 14. Bryant, who admitted she fabricated her story, is still alivehttps://t.co/4vag07igGC— Kimmy The Pooh (@kimmythepooh) June 14, 2020
Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for supposedly whistling at a white woman. His death still haunts America, but his mother helped galvanise the Civil Rights Movement. This is the story. https://t.co/ZZGBFYXpU3— BBC Radio 4 (@BBCRadio4) June 13, 2020
The latest @NewYorker cover, entitled "Say their Names." The faces are real people--from Emmett Till and Martin Luther King Jr to the many who have died recently. It illustrates our national tragedy. pic.twitter.com/QXwLnWQQNk— Robin Wright (@wrightr) June 14, 2020
Congress failed to pass anti-lynching legislation 200 times.— James Birch (@provisionalidea) June 16, 2020
It was finally unanimously passed in the Senate in 2019, and the House in Feb by 410-4, who renamed it after Emmett Till. This change sent it back to the Senate.
Rand Paul is now stalling it.https://t.co/arAGBKeL9h
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