COLD CASES

So the purpose of the course and the project is not simply to solve a crime, name perpetrators and push for prosecution. Our purpose is to teach our students how to locate, dig out and analyze the documentation of those crimes, then engage them in understanding the difficult and fascinating (and, for many families, enduring) history of the life and times of these victims. Students are tasked with finding the truth, producing answers that families of victims have long despaired they will never know, and to present accounts of their findings through a public platform that serves to reveal truth, close gaps in history and bring closure to families of victims... Another fascinating guest was Danielle McGuire, a history professor at Wayne State University and author of At the Dark End of the Street, which explores the history of racially motivated sexual abuse of black women by white men. Jonathan Due, who for many years investigated hate crimes for the Southern Regional Council, provided..