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President Joe Biden delivers remarks, alongside Vice President Kamala Harris and Michelle Duster, the great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells, after signing H.R. 55, the “Emmett Till Antilynching Act” in the Rose Garden of the White House on March 29, 2022. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed into law the first anti-lynching legislation in U.S. history that would make the act a federal hate crime.
“All right. It’s law,” Biden said shortly after he signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act at a desk in the White House Rose Garden alongside Vice President Kamala Harris, members of Congress and top Justice Department officials.
