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this was my boy in it too i got a letter today from auntie lizzie, she said bo's been working the fields oh he just doesn't understand how different things are in mississippi, are you listening yes, be small down there like this maybe never thought anything would happen to him meet the mummy simmy he just wanted to go on vacation and have fun with his cousins but if my son could just get his feet back onto the chicago soil, he'd be one happy kid i don't know where i said that i want to talk to you about that boy they've come for you it's hard to describe what a mother knows the first thing i noticed when i became a mother was that my hands were busy all the time my hand knew him with my eyes closed just like i know his laughter in a crowded room it's the same thing when you know all of someone this was my boy emmett till the body of emmett lewis till has been found dead can at least just fix them up a bit no they have to see it for themselves you told me mamie how was risking your life gonna help them those pictures of your son change people's lives i can't look there man we have to the lynching of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us anywhere in the world had better be the business of us all。

a lifetime ago, but a moment that has haunted the family of emmett till and the nation for nearly seventy years it's with the all time i mean you can't, you can't forget that you know it just can't in nineteen fifty five till was only fourteen years old visiting relatives in mississippi when he was accused of whistling at a white woman, then kidnapped beaten and brutally murdered his killers never convicted his mother insisting on an open casket so the world could see what had been done to her child reverend wheeler parker the oldest child seen here with till is emmet's cousin parker is the last living relative to witness the abduction what do you remember about that moment i remember hearing the man taught about two thirty and one i said we get ready to diet these people going to kill today reverend parker was at the white house to bear witness once again this time history being made in his cousin's name i just signed in the law the amateur lana lynchinac president biden signed the first law that makes lynching a federal hate crime passed unanimously in the senate this month racial hate isn't an old problem it's a persistent problem congress had tried and failed to pass anti lynching laws nearly two hundred times for more than a century the emmet till law imposes a prison term of up to thirty years on a person who commits a hate crime that results in death serious injury or that includes kidnapping, sexual abuse or attempt to kill and lawmakers who worked on the bill say it would apply to cases like the twenty twenty killing of a mod arbury the twenty five year old black man who was killed by three white men, aubrey's killers were all convicted of federal hate crimes it took a hundred years over a hundred years, but it tells us that there's hope today's signing a testament to a teenager never forgotten a step forward in civil rights long overdue。