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Notes for Americans: -
While we're talking about Albert Einstein and how people have tried to erase his 20+ year civil rights protest work from history:Please excuse my European ignorance. This confused me when I first read it. I thought, "isn't lynching already murder, which is already illegal?".
For other readers like me, the anti-lynching legislation recognises that such a bigotry-driven murder is a *worse* crime than a murder for another reason, such as personal enrichment or revenge.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till_Antilynching_Act