This website is a portal to the records collected under the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act of 2018. These records are only a portion of the total case files held by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The National Archives, the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board, the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other federal agencies continue to work to identify cases and implement the Act.
The review and release of this material is a collaborative process involving multiple stages, including notifying the victim's next of kin, before posting material to the National Archives Catalog and to this site.
NARA and other agencies collect, digitize, and review records in response to requests from the Board. If you are interested in a specific incident that does not appear here, please contact the Board at info@coldcaserecords.gov.
Work on this project is ongoing, and additional records will become accessible through this site as digitization, review, and notification are complete.