This is Chip Rantley, co-host of the NPR podcast White Lives.

Before we found the man in Vancouver, before we sued the State Department,

before we snuck into the graveyard of a federal penitentiary,

all we had were the photographs.

Photographs of a group of Cuban men standing on the roof of a prison in rural Alabama.

That's the season on the NPR podcast White Lives.

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This is Barry Truse. I'm Hank Clibbenoff.

There's no question our years of research in my Georgia's Civil Rights cold cases class at Emory and for Barry Truse have turned up stories that are just grim, grotesque, gruesome.

So nothing brings us more joy than discovering right-minded, good-spirited heroes working in the background at great personal risk and pursuit of justice.

Just now, I'm thinking of two in particular.

The first is Reverend Amos Holmes, who repeatedly went into the heart of darkness in Terrell County.

He arrived there with the righteous indignation of a preacher and the zeal of a prosecutor to personally investigate the killings of James Brasier and five weeks later of Willie Countryman.

Amos Holmes had become the NAACP's Georgia Field Secretary less than a month after James Brasier died.

Now this was a significant role in the deep sound.

Let me just give you a little context. Field Secretary was the same position held by Medgar Evers in Mississippi.

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