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Civil rights cold cases board releases 6,510 pages of federal records in Emmett Till lynching case
The documents include hundreds of letters written by an outraged public after the acquittal of Till's killers.
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A class project that took years -- and ended up on the President's desk
The roots of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board stretch back to 2015 and a high school classroom in New Jersey.
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"No justification moral or legal": Black WWII soldiers and the threats at home
Thomas Broadus’s death while off-duty in Baltimore in 1942 symbolized the plight of Black servicemen and the perils of segregation during WWII.
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Cold case review board releases records in four additional cases
A World War II veteran bludgeoned to death in a small town in Texas in 1947. A prison trusty found dead in a Mississippi cornfield in 1949. A 21-year-old man shot in the back seat of a New Orleans police car in 1949.
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Hastening history’s judgment
The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board sheds light on crimes committed during the civil rights era
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