An article in today’s New York Times features a case that CRRJ uncovered. The case involved the killing of a soldier, Put. Albert King, in Georgia in 1941. Professor Rose Zoltek-Jick worked with the family, and lawyers at the firm of Morgan Lewis whom she recruited, to get the Army to reverse an erroneous and racist contemporaneous finding about the circumstances of the soldier’s death, thereby correcting the historical record.
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Photo credit: Selectees at Fort Benning in Georgia on July 21, 1941. 161st Sig. Photo. Co./U.S. Army
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Private Albert King was killed at Fort Benning, Georgia in 1941. The case was investigated by the journalist Alexa Mills, a former CRRJ student. The King story appears in the Washington Post Magazine.…
An article published by The Washington Post, Jan. 15, highlights CRRJ’s efforts to reverse findings about the death of Pvt. Albert H. King’s in 1941.