Regional Alliance for Truth and Racial Reconciliation
News and archives
The Birmingham Pledge hosted the conference in Birmingham, AL, April 30–May2, 2008
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The Moore's Ford Memorial Committee hosted a march on the Moore’s Ford Bridge, with US Rep. John Lewis, on April 4, 2008
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The Philadelphia Coalition of Neshoba County, Mississippi, issued a new call for justice in civil rights cases on March 29, 2008.
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Moore's Ford Memorial Committee’s 1st Civil Rights Bus Tour on March 28-29, 2008
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The Moore's Ford Memorial Committee hosted the Tri-County Talent Show/MLK Celebration on February 16, 2008
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The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal coverage of the ATRR conference at the University of Mississippi on November 9-11, 2007
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University of Maryland School of Law professor Sherilynn Ifill on the CNN story “Symbol of Hate” about the recent appearance of nooses.
Leo Frank, killed in Cobb County, GA in 1915 by a lynch mob, is being remembered again with three upcoming events.
A feature story on remembering Rosewood, Florida, and the 1923 Rosewood Massacre .
STAR member and Emory University Religion professor Theophus “Thee” Smith writes on the 1899 Sam Holt/Tom Wilkes lynching in Newnan, Georgia.
April 21, 2007, cemetery workday to restore former slave cemetery.
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Spring 2007 newsletter and upcoming events for the Moore’s Ford Memorial Committee .
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The Boston Globe's March 3, 2007 story about a Leflore County, Mississippi, grand jury’s decision not to return an indictment in the Emmett Till urder case.
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The Moore's Ford Memorial Committee is working with Newnan (Georgia) area citizens to plan a memorial service for Sam Hose, who was lynched in Newnan in 1899.
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On January 24, 2007, the federal government charged reputed Klansman James Ford Seale in the 1964 murders of Henry Dee and Charles Moore. The Jackson Free Press has extensive coverage of the history of these murders, the search for Seale, and the charges against him.
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The F.B.I. has reopened investigations of about 12 suspicious deaths from the civil rights era.
The event held on September 21-24, 2006, marked the 100th anniversary of the 1906 race riot.
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On May 25, 2006, the group released its Executive Summary to the residents of Greensboro, the City, the Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation Project and other public bodies.
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