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The Life and Tragic Death of Eleanor Rush
Rush, an 18-year-old Black woman, died in 1954 after state prison guards gagged her. Her death sparked protests, investigations, and newspaper coverage—and now the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board has released documents so her story won’t be forgotten.
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Researchers aim to bring truth to light for racially motivated civil rights cold cases
A DeKalb County woman now knows the truth of what happened to her grandmother due to records released by the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board. Now, a new bipartisan bill authored by Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff would extend the review board and allow it to keep doing its work.
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New files reveal a mother’s story from a Civil Rights-era attack
Marion King was 29 years old in the summer of 1962 and raising three children in Albany, Georgia. A graduate of Spelman College, she was married to Slater King, a co-founder of the Albany Movement, a pivotal civil rights campaign. The Kings were not just participants in the civil rights struggle. They were trusted figures within it.
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The untold story of a Black WWII veteran’s lynching
In 1943, Black minister Edward Green was kidnapped, tortured and killed by white men in Alabama. No one was ever arrested.
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Seventy years before the death of Freddie Gray, the police shooting of Private Thomas Broadus in Baltimore led to a civil rights uprising
Thomas Broadus Jr. never knew his namesake father. He was two years old when his father, a U.S. Army private from Pittsburgh, was shot in the back by a white Baltimore police officer in 1942.
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Alabama police beat a Black woman to death in 1945: Her grandchildren finally know the truth
The Jim Crow era of America is riddled with stories -- some told and many unspoken -- of violations against the civil rights and basic humanity of Black people.
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Nominations of Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board members
Nominations of Margaret A. Burnham, Gabrielle M. Dudley, Henry Klibanoff, and Brenda E. Stevenson to be Members, Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board
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‘The clock is ticking': White House under pressure to reopen Civil Rights-era cold cases
A former FBI agent who worked on such cases says time is running out to pursue what few leads might be left.