Edward “Eddie” Green, a 23-year-old Black minister, was at his mother’s home in Millbrook, Alabama on September 13, 1943 when he heard a knock on the front door.

In opening the door, Green likely did not anticipate that the white men at the door — presumably klansmen with possible connections to the nearby Montgomery County sheriff’s office — would kidnap, torture and kill him that day.

Several days later, Green’s body floated to the surface of the Alabama River near the Tyler-Goodwin Bridge and the coroner determined that it was a possible suicide by drowning.

Civil rights organizations looked into his death at the request of area residents and alerted Assistant Attorney General Tom Clark of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) about Green’s death.

However, no federal, state, or local

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