On this day, Congressman George H. White, a Republican from North Carolina and the last African American in Congress at the time, introduced a bill to make lynching a federal crime. Despite the urgency—105 African Americans were lynched in the United States that year—the bill died in committee. White’s efforts marked an early attempt to confront racial violence through federal legislation.
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