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A multimedia investigation of the untold stories of unsolved civil rights-era murders in the South.
The Civil Rights Cold Case Project brings together the power of investigative reporting, narrative writing, documentary filmmaking and interactive multimedia production to reveal the long-neglected truths behind scores of race-motivated murders, and to facilitate reconciliation and healing.
Our reporters are reopening and investigating several cold cases—producing important evidence that prosecutors have used to build criminal cases against killers and conspirators who have walked free for more than 40 years.
Many of our reporters volunteer their time and cover investigative expenses out of pocket. Help us continue our pursuit of truth and justice by supporting the project financially.
Citizens are critical to investigative reporting and we need your help to solve these cases. Send your tips to our investigative reporters.
Featured Cases
In July 1964 the bodies of two black men were found in a Mississippi river. The FBI found...
Frank Morris was asleep in the back bedroom of his shoe repair shop when the sound of...
Clifton Walker was driving home from the late shift at a paper plant when he took a...
Days after he published a story about an arson-murder of a black shopkeeper in Louisiana...
Wharlest Jackson, an active NAACP member, was offered a promotion at the Armstrong Tire...
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Blog
August 25, 2010
Reporter Ben Greenberg talks to the hosts of The Takeaway, a...
August 09, 2010
Attorney General Eric Holder is circulating in Congress his second report on the Justice Department's efforts to solve 109 murder cases in the South during the 1950s and '60s...
August 08, 2010
As far as I knew, none of the children of Clifton Walker had ever been contacted by FBI agents  regarding the February 28, 1964 racial killing of their father, near Woodville,...
