Rosetta “Rose” Hughes never forgot the shift she worked at Birmingham’s University Hospital in the fall of 1963. Klansmen had bombed Sixteenth Street Baptist Church downtown. A little girl was brought ...

Born and raised in Louisiana, he investigated unresolved civil-rights-era killings in the Deep South. His reporting on one of ...

When Morris tried to escape, one of the Klansmen had forced him back into the burning store at gunpoint. A grand jury was convened in 2011, but Spencer was never charged. He died two years later.

Stanley Nelson investigated some of the nation’s most notorious racially motivated slayings in Mississippi and Louisiana.

Stanley Nelson is seen here near the spot where Klansmen killed farmworker Ben Chester White in an effort to lure Martin Luther King Jr. to Mississippi. (Courtesy of David Rigden) ...

Confronted Klansmen, and visited the families so awfully affected by them,” he said. “Stanley’s passion was writing and local reporting but also investigation and uncovering the history that ...

In darkness, on December 10, 1964, a gang of Ku Klux Klansmen showed up with guns and gasoline and burned Morris alive in his shoe repair store. Morris, hospitalized with severe burns, died four ...

In darkness, on December 10, 1964, a gang of Ku Klux Klansmen showed up with guns and gasoline and burned Morris alive in his shoe repair store. Morris, hospitalized with severe burns, died four ...