There have been cross-burnings, bombings, church burnings, and killings.

Justice under law is not guaranteed for any growth in Mississippi in the way that it is for the white men.

We are fighting for the things we've been doing the night so long.

Downtown, that's it.

There's under a strict boycott by nearly half the population.

Mr. Mayor, do you anticipate any violent reaction from a complex plan or any other organization as a response?

No, I don't.

They can destroy our man, but they cannot destroy this movie.

In 1967, a man named Warless Jackson senior was murdered on his way home from work and not just Mississippi.

Oh, Mr. Jackson was guilty of.

He wanted a job to make it better for his wife and five children.

That's all he wanted.

Jackson was a Korean war veteran who was involved in civil rights organizing and who had just been promoted at work.

No charges have ever been brought in this case.

I relive this thing over and over again, have been doing it for years.

Hoping for some justice.

More than 40 years later, the federal government reopened Jackson's case along with more than a hundred other unsolved civil rights era cold cases.

Unresolved is a multi-platform initiative from Frontline that tells the story of these lives cut short and examines the federal investigations brought on by the Emmett Till unsolved civil rights crime act.

American Reckoning, part of the unresolved initiative, is a feature-length documentary from Frontline and Retro Report.

It traces the life and death of Warless Jackson senior, the history of the civil rights movement in his hometown, and his family's ongoing struggle to achieve justice.

I'm joined by American Reckoning Producers, writers and directors, Deruba Rieschen and Brad Lichtenstein, as well as Don Porter, who co-executed or produced this film and the entire unresolved initiative with me for Frontline.

I'm René Ernst and Roth and this is the Frontline Dispatch.

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