Victims’ families languish as state effort to document civil rights-era crimes stalls
Cynthia Myers, descendant of 1939 lynching victim Jesse Lee Bond in Arlington, said the Tennessee Civil Rights Crimes, Information, Reconciliation, and Research Center’s creation is emboldening families to the share their stories, but that she wants to make sure the center has enough resources to bring the information to light. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
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A 2018 law created the Tennessee Civil Rights Crimes, Information, Reconciliation, and Research Center, but provided no additional funding or staff.
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Laura Faith Kebede is a distinguished journalist in residence at the Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis. She leads the Institute’s Civil Wrongs project to write about historical cases of racial terror as a corps member for Report for America. You can follow her on Twitter @kebedefaith.
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