Law Commons^™

Restoring Justice To Civil Rights Movement Activists?: New Historiography And The “Long Civil Rights Era”, Athena D. Mutua

Athena D. Mutua

The paper engages ongoing discussions about the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project. This Project has been organized to support efforts to rectify and account for the tremendous cost to civil rights activists and supporters of participating in the civil rights movement. These efforts include, for instance, fresh prosecutions against perpetrators of old hate crimes, including cases against the killers of Medger Evers and the three Mississippi Freedom Summer workers. The question the paper asks is: what do Project participants mean when they talk about the civil rights era? The short answer is that the Project organizers initially conceptualized the …