The House on Wednesday passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, which would make lynching a federal crime if enacted.
The bill was passed with a vote of 410-4. The bill is named in honor of Till, who was murdered at age 14 in a racist attack in Mississippi in 1955. His lynching was one of 4,742 that were reported between 1892 and 1968, reports NBC News.
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