June 13, 2005
Eighty U.S. Senators officially apologized for the fact that the Senate never passed an anti-lynching bill. The first bill making lynching a federal crime was introduced in the House of Representatives on April 1, 1918. In the 1920s and 1930s the anti-lynching bill was one of the major issues for the NAACP, although its efforts were never successful. Among the 20 who did not sign were the two senators from Texas.
