Alabama
Hattie DeBardelaben: Federal officials release documents on civil rights cold case
Mary DeBardelaben made a promise she’d find out how her grandmother died at the hands of lawmen who raided her rural Alabama home in 1945. Now she’s finally learning the whole truth.
CNN —
Mary DeBardelaben once made a promise to her grandmother’s portrait hanging on the sage green wall in her living room.
One day, she vowed, she’d find out just how her grandmother, Hattie DeBardelaben, died in the back of a police car in rural A... [9206 chars]