The FBI’s Cold Case Initiative is investigating the 46-year-old case of James Reeb, a Massachusetts minister who was beaten to death in Alabama while doing civil rights work, a spokesman said Friday. The FBI launched an initiative in 2007 to investigate unsolved murders from the civil rights era. A spokesman with the agency, Chris Allen, said […]
Civil Rights Cold Case Initiative
Settlement for Charles Moore and Henry Dee
NPR brings us the news that officials in Franklin County, Mississippi, have agreed to settle a civil suit charging county law enforcement officials with aiding and abetting the Ku Klux Klan in the 1964 murders of Charles Moore and Henry Dee. NPR’s Michele Norris spoke to Margaret Burnham, an attorney for the families of Moore and Dee, […]