Uncovering "Buried Truths": The Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project at Emory University

In September 1948, Isaiah Nixon was shot and killed because he voted in the Democratic primary in Montgomery County, Georgia. Soon after he was buried, his wife and six children moved away in fear and his grave was lost to time. His burial place remained missing for 67 years until Emory University students began studying the case as part of Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project: coldcases.emory.edu/
Their work is the basis of "Buried Truths," the acclaimed podcast by Emory professor Hank Klibanoff, director of the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project, produced by Atlanta NPR station WABE: www.wabe.org/shows/buried-tru...
"Buried Truths" won a 2018 Peabody Award in the radio/podcast category. Read the full story: emry.link/peabody