Forty-five years ago, a man named Thad Christian died of a shotgun blast to the stomach on a rural stretch of road south of Jacksonville. Yet, his death did not garner the notice of the other killings that summer. It was covered in the press but quickly faded from the front pages even though the circumstances, according to news reports, were disturbing.
Articles
August 23, 2010
In February 2007, Alberto R. Gonzales, the attorney general under President George W. Bush, issued a stern warning to those who murdered blacks with impunity during the civil rights era: “You have not gotten away with anything. We are still on your trail.” He noted that time was short. The window of opportunity to solve racially motivated crimes more than 40 years old was closing. Families of the victims had waited decades for resolution, while suspects and witnesses have died. More than three years later, they are still waiting.
August 09, 2010
Attorney General Eric Holder is circulating in Congress his second report on the Justice Department's efforts to solve 109 murder cases in the South during the 1950s and '60s that appear to have been racially motivated.
August 07, 2010
In late August 1965, Thad Christian, father of seven, set out to go fishing near his home in the rural community of Central City, west of Anniston.
August 04, 2010
While more than half of the unsolved civil rights era murders have been closed by the FBI, two local cases are still being investigated and a third has been added to the list for review.
August 02, 2010
FBI agents have closed almost half of the 122 unpunished killings from the civil rights era that four years ago they announced they were investigating.
Henry Dee and Charles Moore Case
July 13, 2010
Franklin County officials have settled a landmark lawsuit brought against it by the families of two black teens killed by Klansmen in 1964.
June 14, 2010
The William Moore, Frank Morris and Wharlest Jackson murders are among more than 100 civil rights-era ''cold cases'' being probed by the FBI in an exercise as much about exorcising the demons of failed justice - and of corrupt and complicit local authorities in several southern states - as it is about unearthing fresh evidence against suspects.
Frank Morris Case
May 05, 2010
James Buford Goss was calm by the time he talked to Vidalia's police chief at the old Concordia Parish Courthouse on the morning of Friday, July 10, 1964. He had been furious the night before. Goss told the chief that Joseph "Joe-Ed" Edwards, a black porter at the Shamrock Motel, had assaulted his close friend Iona Perry, a 22-year-old white woman who worked as a registration clerk at the motel. He said Edwards had grabbed the arms of Perry, who suffered from a crippling disease, and kissed her against her will.
April 23, 2010
Some 60 family members of people who lost their lives during the civil rights movement are in Atlanta this weekend in the first gathering of its kind to explore what organizers say are the “legal, historical and societal impact” of the killings.
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