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Article: Unsolved civil rights cases get second look from FBI
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- February 24, 2007
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JACKSON, Miss. - The FBI is considering reopening dozens of cold
cases involving slayings suspected of being racially motivated in the
South during the 1950s and '60s.
An announcement could come as early as Tuesday, according to a law
enforcement official who spoke with the Associated Press on condition
of anonymity because the plans have not yet been finalized.
In addition to the FBI's own investigations, the Southern Poverty
Law Center submitted its own list last week of 74 potential unsolved
slayings that involved white-on-black violence.
Thirty-two of the deaths happened in Mississippi. The others were
in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, North Carolina,
South Carolina, ...