The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) conducts research and supports policy initiatives on anti-civil rights violence in the United States and other miscarriages of justice of that period. CRRJ serves as a resource for scholars, policymakers, and organizers involved in various initiatives seeking justice for crimes of the civil rights era.
Continue ReadingIsadore Banks, 59 years old and a prominent landowner, disappeared on June 4, 1954. Banks’ wife, Alice, last saw him as he left the house with the intention of paying his farmhands. On or about June 8, 1954, Banks’ truck was discovered in a wooded property just outside of Marion, Arkansas, by Carl Croom, a neighboring landowner. Banks’ loaded shotgun and coat were still inside. Authorities found Banks’ body, tied to a tree, mutilated, and burned beyond recognition. Banks had been drenched with fuel and burned from the knees up. A can of gasoline was found close to the body.
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The Louisiana Supreme Court has under review a novel argument in a death penalty appeal: did the presence of the Confederate flag in front of the courthouse violate the defendant’s due process rights?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution January 23, 2012 Raped and pregnant at age 13, orphaned by a runaway father and a mother in prison, Elaine Riddick already had many strikes against her when it ...
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