This Black History Month, WABE’s “Morning Edition” is shedding light on a Civil Rights cold case dating back to 1945.
It surrounds crucial new information released about the murder of a 46-year-old Alabama farmer and mother, Hattie DeBardelaben. Initial reports said she died of a heart attack after resisting arrest on a charge of possession of bootleg liquor during a warrantless search of her home.
However, the facts surrounding her death at the hands of police and federal officers are now public after the FBI and Department of Justice released un-redacted records 80 years later. That was as part of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act of 2018.
Mary DeBardelaben shares more on the search for the truth about her grandmother Hattie’s death
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