Two hundred times, they failed to get it done. They failed after 1899. That was the year an African-American man named Sam Hose was massacred by a white mob near Newnan, Ga., that castrated him, skinned his face, then cooked him alive over a fire and parceled out pieces of
And approximately 200 times since 1900, legislation has been introduced in Congress to make lynching a federal crime. Each time, Congress has failed to pass it. Until now.
Two hundred times, they failed to get it done. They failed after 1899. That was the year an African American man named Sam Hose was massacred by a white mob n