Article: A righteous quest

Article: Unfinished business: victims of civil rights era crimes are finally getting justice through the persistence of relatives, journalists, and prosecutors.
New York Times Upfront;  March 12, 2007 ;     700+ words ......org The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis...background on the civil rights struggle. Click...Moore and Henry Dee were both 19 when...away. They bound Dee to a car engine...early days of the civil rights movement, dozens...crucial in the case: Dee and ...

Article: UNSOLVED CIVIL RIGHTS CRIMES:GRACE CHUNG BECKER
Congressional Testimony;  June 12, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Act of 1957, the first civil rights legislation enacted...that legislation, the Civil Rights Division was officially...brutality. In 1964, the Civil Rights Division investigated...the murder of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia...Attorney General of the ...

Article: DEE BRINGS CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY TO TV.(TV)(Review)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  April 18, 1999 ;     700+ words ......That's a major reason Dee is a key part of CBS' Having...today on KCNC-Channel 4. Dee co-stars with Diahann Carroll...and 101-year-old Bessie (Dee), somewhat headstrong and...during their long, rich lives. Dee, who read the book and saw...viewers see the growth of the civil rights ...

Article: Unsolved civil rights cases get second look from FBI
Charleston Gazette;  February 24, 2007 ;     542 words ......was putting together a civil rights memorial. But it is...could be considered a civil rights case, he said. U.S...federal prosecution under civil rights statutes. However, he...literally chiseled into the civil rights memorial that sits outside...limitations under ...

Article: Interview: Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis discuss their accomplishments as performers and civil rights advocates as they prepare to accept an award from the Screen Actors Guild
NPR Morning Edition;  March 9, 2001 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 Interview: Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis discuss their...accomplishments as performers and civil rights advocates as they prepare to...night, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee will receive the Screen Actors...accomplishments as performers and civil rights advocates. The couple...year's PBS ...

Article: MASS. CIVIL RIGHTS LAW PUT TO NEW USE
The Boston Globe;  May 12, 1989 ;     697 words ......under the state's civil rights law. The injunction...private victim in a civil rights case involving racial...law, according to civil rights advocates and the...office had obtained civil rights injunctions in cases...I'm ecstatic," said Dee Daley, who along...sat ...

Article: ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION SPEAKS BEFORE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE ON CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION OVERSIGHT
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 21, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, Before the...Judiciary Committee on Civil Rights Division Oversight...accomplishments in the Civil Rights Division since I last...abducted Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charlie Eddie...the Klansmen secured Dee to an engine ...

Article: REP. WALBERG SUPPORTS BILL TO SOLVE CRIMINAL CASES FROM CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 20, 2007 ;     223 words ......voted in favor of H.R. 923, the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act. The bi-partisan bill would authorize $10...the Department of Justice and the FBI to investigate civil rights crimes committed prior to December 31, 1969. All federal...ensuring unsolved murders and violent crimes from the ...

Article: Civil rights Murders: The Till Bill would create two cold case squads to reopen and solve dozens of long-forgotten civil rights murders -- if Congress can pay attention long enough to make it law
Chicago Sun-Times;  October 8, 2006 ;     700+ words ......search for the bodies of civil rights workers James Chaney...and his friend Henry Dee. Moore and Dee had been...reinvestigate dozens of unsolved civil rights era murders. The clock...called the "Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act." But on Capitol...

Article: Transcript of Press Conference Announcing Partnership on Civil Rights Era Cases
U.S. Newswire;  February 27, 2007 ;     700+ words ......press conference announcing partnership on civil rights era cases: 11:36 A.M. EST ATTORNEY GENERAL...League and Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, Wan Kim. One month ago I stood before...Justice's efforts to focus on cold cases from the civil rights era. In ...

Article: We Shall Overcome: A Living History of the Civil Rights Struggle Told in Words, Pictures and the Voices of the Participants
Black Issues Book Review;  January 1, 2005 ;     410 words ...We Shall Overcome: A Living History of the Civil Rights Struggle Told in Words, Pictures and the Voices of...The highly publicized phase of the mass movement for civil rights began in 1955, the year lynchers murdered 14-year-old...people were supposed to sit on an Alabama city bus. The Civil ...

Article: U.S. attorney probes civil rights-era killings
Post-Tribune (IN);  July 15, 2005 ;     445 words ......lesser-known crimes from the civil rights era. U.S. attorney Dunn Lampton...of Charles Moore and Henry Dee, two young black men from Franklin...Michael Schwerner -- the three civil rights workers whose deaths Killen...bodies found were Moore, 20, and Dee, 19, who were hitchhiking ...

Article: Justice at last: Arrest in one of last unsolved crimes from civil rights era
Chicago Sun-Times;  January 25, 2007 ;     399 words ......unsolved crimes of the civil rights era -- the 1964 killings...Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, both 19. The victims...the search for three civil rights workers whose disappearance...would be satisfied." Dee's sister, Thelma Collins...for the three missing civil rights ...

Article: NATIONALLY NOTE CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST, CO-FOUNDER OF SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER TO KEYNOTE ATKINS MEMORIAL LECTURE IN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW ON OCT. 30
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 30, 2008 ;     700+ words ......news release: Successful entrepreneur, civil rights activist and attorney, noted author...Atkins. J. Alston was one of the foremost civil rights intellectuals of his time. In 1967...racial injustice. He sympathized with the Civil Rights Movement but had not become actively...