Push on to solve old civil rights cases
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Congress moved Tuesday to set aside $100 million to create a Justice Department unit devoted to investigating unsolved murders from the civil rights era.
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The Florida Department of Law Enforcement sent its most aggressive agent to work on the case full time, armed with big stacks of files from the FBI and sheriff's investigators. Even with those resources, it took nearly two years to finally solve the 1951 murders of black civil rights activists Harry T. and Harriette Moore, whose house was bombed by Ku Klux Klan members.
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The city's public housing should be desegregated by spreading its residents across the region, a federal judge ruled Thursday in a 10-year-old civil rights case that challenged a half-century of government policy.
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Thereâs still a number of outstanding issues, some in the public domain. Itâs fairly obvious what they are. âWe will continue over the next day or so to bring those to conclusions.
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Civil rights groups consider suing to test whether New York police went too far in arresting activists during GOP conclave.
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The NAACP filed a civil rights lawsuit challenging a purge of Louisiana voters believed to have registered in other states following Hurricane Katrina.
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The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer by Michael Meltsner, University of Virginia Press, 309 pages, $34.95.
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Recent moves across the South, but even in the capital, seek to modify statues and plaques for historical figures to reflect racist past.
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Incomplete records and conflicting emotions within the black community make preserving African-American historical sites difficult.
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An unusual coalition of former prosecutors, corporate lawyers and civil liberties advocates will tell a congressional panel today to consider legislation that would relax Justice Department policies on charging businesses with crimes.
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The case of Edgar Ray Killen embodies an archetype on the verge of extinction. It will likely be one of the last of its kind: the blockbuster southern murder trial looking back to the civil rights era.
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The FBI has been reviewing nearly 100 unsolved suspected murders from the civil rights era more than 40 years ago and is focusing initially on a dozen cases to investigate further, FBI officials said on Tuesday.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb.
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These days, civil rights leaders are struggling to be heard. NAACP chairman Julian Bond has been trying, to no avail, to get the attention of one leader in particular: President Bush.
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Painful recollections of a bygone eraÂs racism have emerged with the excavation of an old Mississippi mill townÂs pool.
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By Scott Leith, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Feb.
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Human-rights lawyer Gareth Peirce on the dangers of forgotten history lessons