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A look at unresolved murders of the Civil Rights era.


Families of those slain during civil rights movement meet in Atlanta
Some 60 family members of people who lost their lives during the civil rights movement are in Atlanta this weekend in the first gathering of its kind to explore what organizers say are the “legal, historical and societal impact” of the killings.
Apr 24, 2010 |  0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cold cases challenge the search for civil rights-era justice
The crimes tended to be those of a coward — after all, one man had the gun, the other didn't. But racial hatred was the motive, and now after many years some of those crimes are getting renewed attention from the law
Aug 08, 2010 |  0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thad Christian’s death still raises questions 45 years later
The U.S. Justice Department is still reviewing the civil rights case, but considering all the other things going on in the world today, Travis Haynes, brother of the now-deceased killer, ventured, “that FBI bunch, they need to forget about this.”
Aug 28, 2010 |  3 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rogers Hamilton, who was killed in 1957 (Photo special to The Star)
Midnight Visitors: Part one in an examination of the short life and troubled times of Rogers Hamilton
In 1957 Lowndes County, did a mother tell an investigator everything she knew about her son's violent death? It appears not.
Dec 12, 2010 |  8 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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Margaret Goodwin, a cousin of Rogers Hamilton, left, Elizabeth Welch, his niece, and Beatrice Christian, his sister, discuss the death of Hamilton recently in Atlanta. (Photo for The Anniston Star by John Fleming)
The short life of Rogers Hamilton, part 2: Voices from a Cleveland park
It is to this city, Cleveland, and Chicago and New York, that the Hamilton extended family fled in the days after 18-year-old Rogers Hamilton was shot and killed on a late October night in south Alabama in 1957.
Dec 13, 2010 |  0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Short Life of Rogers Hamilton: Part 3, The Deputy Comes Calling
Family members say that for half a century, they've known who killed Rogers Hamilton. But investigators never truly folowed up on the civil rights-era murder.
Dec 14, 2010 |  2 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Feds vow to solve 1964 civil rights cold case killing in Louisiana
In recent weeks, the Federal Bureau of Investigation intensified its efforts to solve the 1964 arson-murder of Ferriday, La., shoe shop owner Frank Morris, leading a top FBI official to declare last week that the agency "will solve this crime."
Jan 12, 2011 |  0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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Arthur Leonard Spencer (Photo by Concordia Sentinel)
Rayville, La., man implicated in 1964 death of black shop owner
Two people say a Richland, La., Parish truck driver who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan told them he participated in the arson that killed Frank Morris, a black Ferriday, La., businessman, in 1964. A third person, the truck driver's former wife, says she, too, heard what she believes was a credible eyewitness report that placed the truck driver at the scene of the arson when the fire was ignited more than 46 years ago.
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