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Traitor Town: The unsolved slaying of Clifton Walker

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Clifton Walker Case

Four and a half years after the FBI announced it would reopen and investigate more than 100 cases of unsolved civil rights-era killings in the South, the bureau has yet to initiate charges in any of the cases. It has instead closed all but 39 of those cases without recommending prosecution.

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FBI to reopen investigation into 1965 beating death of minister

Jerry Mitchell

Forty-six years after a white gang beat to death Unitarian Universalist minister James Reeb in Selma, Ala., the FBI is investigating the case.

FBI investigating former Alabama trooper for another killing

Jerry Mitchell

The FBI continues to investigate former Alabama trooper James Bonard Fowler for yet another killing, the Montgomery Advertiser is reporting.

Report: Half of FBI's civil rights-era cold cases are closed

Jerry Mitchell

FBI agents have closed almost half of the 122 unpunished killings from the civil rights era that four years ago they announced they were investigating.

Lawsuit over '64 deaths settled

Jerry Mitchell
Henry Dee and Charles Moore Case

Franklin County officials have settled a landmark lawsuit brought against it by the families of two black teens killed by Klansmen in 1964.

Killen claims God is on his side

Jerry Mitchell

Convicted Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen says there wasn't enough legal evidence to imprison him for the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers and that God is going to get whoever helped put him away. Reporter Admin co-reported this story.

Was shoe shop arson done by Tallulah wrecking crew?

Stanley Nelson
Frank Morris Case

Did a "wrecking crew" from the Tallulah unit of the Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan set Frank Morris' shoe shop on fire in 1964?

Persistence, luck brought Evers case to a close

Jerry Mitchell

In 1989, according to Clarion-Ledger reports, secret files showed that at the same time the state was prosecuting Byron De La Beckwith in 1964 for Evers’ murder, another arm of the state was secretly assisting Beckwith’s defense, trying to get him acquitted. That other arm was the state’s segregationist spy agency, the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, which was headed by the governor.

Mississippi Burning killings: A timeline of events

Jerry Mitchell

A timeline of the over 30-year investigation into the killings of three civil rights workers in 1964.

King's FBI files may be opened to public

Jerry Mitchell

U.S. Sen. John Kerry plans to introduce legislation next week that would pave the way for the release of thousands of FBI documents on the life and death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The bill calls for creating a Martin Luther King Records Collection at the National Archives that would include all government records related to King. The bill also would create a five-member independent review board that would identify and make public all documents from agencies including the FBI - just as a review board in 1992 made public documents related to the 1963 John F. Kennedy assassination.