Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, dies at 85 Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

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Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon, dies at age 84 Civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson died on Tuesday morning aged 84, according to a statement released by his family.

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The online portal to the records held at the National Archives, and information about those records.

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Just-released records from Civil Rights Cold Case Commission on 1955 kidnapping, torture, murder of Emmett Till, 14, in Mississippi:

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U.S. releases Emmett Till investigation records ahead of 70th anniversary of his killing Till, 14, was killed in 1955 by two white men who were acquitted by an all-white jury but later told a reporter that they kidnapped and murdered the boy.

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