S.Res. 39 · 109th Congress

Lynching Victims Senate Apology resolution

Stage
Passed chamber resolution
Introduced
2005-02-07
Latest action
2005-06-13 · Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.

Summary

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Declares that the Senate: (1) apologizes to the victims and survivors of lynching for its failure to enact anti-lynching legislation; (2) expresses its deepest sympathies and most solemn regrets to the descendants of such victims whose ancestors were deprived of life, human dignity, and the constitutional protections accorded all other U.S. citizens; and (3) remembers the history of lynching, to ensure that these personal tragedies will be neither forgotten nor repeated.