AS: A lot of people know the story of Emmett Till. A lot of people knew about Medgar Evers. But many don't understand that there were many other lynchings. These were the prices that were paid for folks like me, and Obama, and [New York State Governor] David Patterson, and [Massachusetts Governor] Deval Patrick to do what we do think that by bringing these cases to light, it gives people at understanding of the culture of racial violence, as well as the fact that some of these cases are still unsolved. So, it's a matter of teaching history in a dramatic way, because this is not the kind of documentary series that puts you to sleep. It's been done very well. It's not only riveting but it reminds you that we're just a generation or two away from lynchings, and that some of the perpetrator...
Despite its conservative orientation, the Rehnquist Court did not reverse major liberal precedents of the Warren and Burger courts. It decided nearly half its civil rights and liberties cases liberally and even produced its own liberal precedents. Here, Smith and Hensley assess the decision-making trends of the Rehquist Court era.
PELAHATCHIE, Miss. - On a late-fall evening 46 years ago, gunfire shattered the revelry at a nameless juke joint in this rural crossroads. When the smoke cleared, Joseph Robert McNair, a black father of six, lay at the feet of the community's white constable. That McNair was dead, and that Luther Steverson had killed him are about the only details on which folks around here agree.
JACKSON, Miss. - Over the last three years, the FBI scoured faded documents, interviewed aging lawmen and tracked down witnesses from killings that occurred decades ago, many of them involving white police officers who shot black men or teenagers. Now, the agency is at a dead end in the search for relatives in at least 33 civil rights-era cases, and the FBI needs the public's help. Agents are appealing for relatives of the victims to come forward, the latest challenge in an effort to right historical wrongs.
The deaths of Freddie Robinson and [Larry Payne] are just some of nearly 100 unsolved civil rights-era deaths that the U.S. Justice Department in conjunction with the FBI will consider reopening as part of a widespread agency initiative announced last month. The National Urban League, NAACP and Southern Poverty Center will also be working with federal authorities to help produce evidence and witnesses who to help solve some of these "cold" cases from a bygone era when, to quote a recent Seattle Times editorial, it was open season on Blacks in the South. We brought tons of people to the grand jury (for the church bombing case), some of whom I'm absolutely convinced committed perjury, saying they didn't know about something. Could I prove it? No way," [Doug Jones] told the Birmingham New...
JACKSON, Miss. - Over the last three years, the FBI scoured faded documents, interviewed aging lawmen and tracked down witnesses from killings that occurred decades ago, many of them involving white police officers who shot black men or teenagers. Now, the agency is at a dead end in the search for relatives in at least 33 civil rights-era cases, and the FBI needs the public's help. Agents are appealing for relatives of the victims to come forward, the latest challenge in a three-year-old effort to right historical wrongs.
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