Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/crm/matthewshepard.php
The murder of murder of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. made people realize the severity hate crimes. Even so, it took 11 years for this to become a law. The bill fail to make it through Congress several times and finally pass through under the Obama administration. Since we know a lot about the Matthew Shepard case, i look up a few articles on James Byrd Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd,_Jr.
Here's a series of articles about the impact and aftermath of James Byrd's murder
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/b/james_jr_byrd/index.html
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