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Congress first considered anti-lynching legislation more than 120 years ago.
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Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, Congress has approved legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law.
The federal government has reopened its investigation into the slaying of Emmett Till, a teenager whose brutal killing in Mississippi shocked the world more than 60 years ago.