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Hastening history’s judgment: The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board releases records from 1945 killing of Alabama grandmother
The federal Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board today announced the release of FBI and Department of Justice records surrounding the 1945 death of Hattie DeBardelaben, a 46-year-old Black mother and grandmother, who was beaten to death by law enforcement authorities. The release of these records – which comprise 69 pages and are viewable on the website of the National Archives and Records Administration – represents the first public disclosure of records under the scope of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act of 2018.
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Nominations of Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board members
Nominations of Margaret A. Burnham, Gabrielle M. Dudley, Henry Klibanoff, and Brenda E. Stevenson to be Members, Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board
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‘The clock is ticking': White House under pressure to reopen Civil Rights-era cold cases
A former FBI agent who worked on such cases says time is running out to pursue what few leads might be left.
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Legislation Would Open Trove Of Federal Records On Civil Rights-Era Cold Cases
NPR's Debbie Elliott asks Sen. Doug Jones, D-Ala., about legislation making available documents from decades-old unsolved civil rights cases.
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Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act of 2018
This bill requires the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to: (1) establish a collection of civil rights cold case records; (2) prepare and publish the subject guidebook and index to the collection; and (3) establish criteria for transmitting copies of civil rights cold case records to NARA, to include required metadata.
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