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Solving A 1964 Cold Case: Mystery of Frank Morris
This investigation, partnered with the Concordia Sentinel, CBC Radio and NPR digs into the cold case of Frank Morris, thought to be murdered by Ku Klux Klan members, all for refusing to work on a deputy sheriff's cowboy boots.
Tags: Cold case project; KKK; multimedia
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Mississippi Cold Case
"The process of making the documentary, "Mississippi Cold Case" solved an intractable civil rights era hate crime and helped put a Ku Klux Klansman behind bars for life. The film tells the step-by-step story of how victim's family member Thomas Moore and documentary filmmaker David Ridgen reignite interest in Charles Moore and Henry Dee case..."
Tags: Civil Rights; KKK; Ku Klux Klan; murder; FBI; James Ford Seale; Cold Case Bill;
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Tangled up in Blue
Cleveland Scene looks at the case of Sergeant Gerald Goode who "became the scapegoat for allegations of police racism. Then he became a casualty."
Tags: Gerald Goode; police; police racism; Cleveland Police; KKK; racial allegations
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Behind The Wire
The Intelligence Report reports on the problem of racism in prisons. According to the article, the prison world is defined by race. Guards have been charged with "cockfighting" prisoners, intimidating prisoners with Klan hoods and forming their own brutal gangs.
Tags: prisons; gangs; racism; correctional officers; KKK; Aryan Nation; Aryan Brotherhood
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Threat from Within
MSNBC reports on the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing. Since then, "...home-grown acts of terror, particularly those committed by factions of the radical right similar to those responsible for Oklahoma City, have not gone away - and have, if anything, grown dramatically in frequency."
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The State investigates South Carolina's church fires and discovers: most church arsons were thrill crimes committed by young males with slight racial bias; at least two South Carolina churches were burned as part of a conspiracy within the Ku Klux Klan; and thrill crimes and Klan activities have long been tolerated by a mainstream population that confuses its love for Confederate history with a tolerance for an extreme minority of racist extremists. (Jan. to Dec., 1996)
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CBC investigates the abuse, torture and murder of Somali nationals, particularly the death of Shidane Arone, by soldiers from the Canadian Airborne Regiment who were deployed in Somalia as a part of the U.N. peacekeeping effort. Links between soldierncovered. (May 5, June 14, Sept. 8, 14, Oct. 2, 4, Nov. 8, Dec. 20, 1995)
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Texas Monthly describes the problems that caused the failure of an integration attempt at a federal housing project in Vidor, Texas; problems include not only the KKK but government intentions gone awry, December 1993.
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Times-Picayune (New Orleans) investigation of the background of David Duke, Lousiana state representative and candidate for governor; finds Nazi, KKK, and questionable financial activities in his past, 1991.
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CNN Special Assignment looks at Louisiana State Representative David Duke's assertions that his Nazi and KKK sympathies were nothing more than youthful indescretions, and finds that the "New Duke" is the old Duke, just repackaged to sell, Oct. 16, 1991.
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