A high school government class wanted to help solve civil rights crimes. So they drafted a bill that eventually was signed into law by President Trump.
They weren't born when the civil rights movement ended. Even many of their parents weren't alive then.And yet a high school class in Hightstown, New Jersey, has found an impressive way to shed light on unsolved civil rights crimes from the 1950s and '60s.The AP class, studying US government, drafted a bill that would create a board to review, declassify, and release documents related to such cases.Then they went one step further.
"The high school students and other investigators dug up evidence that ended up incriminating the individuals who were convicted only because that evidence existed in the public eye."He added that"private investigators, family members, even high schoolers have had a great deal of success in closing some of these cases, so we felt that it was necessary to give more people the chance to do so.
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