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The Emmett Till Antilynching Act was overwhelmingly approved on a bipartisan vote. "It's never too late to repudiate evil," Rep. Bobby Rush said.
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Emmett Till's 1955 lynching propelled the civil rights movement, but telling his story underscores a reluctance for some in Mississippi "to come to grips with its history of racial brutality."
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An Instagram photo shows three white men, two holding guns, posing near the marker at the Tallahatchie River, where the murdered boy's body was pulled from the water in 1955.