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The latest installment of FRONTLINE’s multiplatform Un(re)solved initiative, "American Reckoning" offers an extraordinary look at the civil rights era through rare archival footage and the story of the murder of a local NAACP leader in Natchez, Mississippi.
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Un(re)solved Installation Exhibition - Mississippi Premiere
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Un(re)solved tells the stories of lives cut short and examines a federal effort to investigate more than 150 cold cases that date back to the civil rights era.
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