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Article: Unfinished business: victims of civil rights era crimes are finally getting justice through the persistence of relatives, journalists, and prosecutors.
- Article from:
- New York Times Upfront
- Article date:
- March 12, 2007
- Author:
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BACKGROUND
With time running out as witnesses and suspects die, a number of notorious crimes of the civil rights era are being reopened. In many cases, it's been the persistence of relatives, journalists, and film-makers who refused to give up that kept the pressure on law-enforcement officials to solve and try these cases.
BEFORE READING
* Grab students' attention by writing "murder" on the board. Tell them they will read about a series of murders, some a half-century old, that are only now being solved.
CRITICAL THINKING/DISCUSSION
* Direct students' attention to the Unresolved Civil Rights Crime Act (p. 11). Ask students ...