Thousands of federal records related to civil rights-era crimes are being opened to the public.
The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board is helping families uncover long-hidden truths and find answers decades in the making, explains Margaret Burnham & Brenda E. Stevenson in #AHAPerspectives.
A small government agency is releasing federal documents by the thousands that shed new light on racial and other forms of violence in the civil rights era—but the clock is ticking on its work.