Emmett Till Antilynching Act Goes Before House Judiciary Committee

CHICAGO (CBS) – The Emmett Till Antilynching Act goes before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday.

Congress has yet to make lynching a federal hate crime.

Chicago teen Emmett Till was tortured and killed after supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi in 1955.

The case was reopened four years ago after a book claimed the woman recanted her story. Federal investigators couldn't confirm if that was true.

An all-white jury acquitted the two white men -- who later confessed.