Regional Alliance for Truth and Racial Reconciliation

Regional Alliance

A reading list of online resources:

A Factsheet about The Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act (HR923)

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This 2-page document requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.

A Compilation of Articles on the Till Bill

Authors: various
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This 10-page document requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.

A Case Study in Southern Justice: The Emmett Till Case

Author: Hugh S. Whitaker
This is Whitaker's 1963 Florida State University master's thesis
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This 218-page study requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.

National Apologies: Extraordinary Politics Within Ordinary Times

Author: Brian Weiner
From "Repairing the Past: Confronting the Legacies of Slavery, Genocide, and Caste," the Seventh Annual Guilder Lehrman Center International Conference
October 27-29, 2005
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This 51-page paper requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.

A Brief History of Race and the Supreme Court

Author: David Kairys
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This 27-page paper requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.

The Legacy of Slavery

Author: Rita Bender
Transcription of a lecture given at the University of Mississippi on October 25, 2005
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