The Civil Rights Restorative Justice Project is an initiative by the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts, to document every racially motivated killing in the American South between 1930 and 1970.
[1] The project aims to serve as a resource for scholars, policymakers, and organizers involved in various initiatives seeking justice for crimes of the civil rights era.
[2] In December 2014, the Project successfully helped to vacate the conviction of George Stinney of Alcolu, South Carolina, who at age 14 was the youngest person in United States history to have been executed.
[3] In 2016 CRRJP's Tara Dunn and Ariel Goeun Lee reported on the full account of their investigation into the notorious 1947 death of Henry "Peg" Gilbert while held in the Harris County, Georgia jail.
He was arrested without a warrant, on wrongful charges of harboring a black fugitive who had shot a white man in Troup County.