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Tonight Investigation Discovery launches a powerful television series called The Injustice Files, a look at cold cases from the civil rights era. While many Americans may have forgotten or choose not to remember this painful era in U.S.

history, the series is an emotional reminder that justice has not been fully realized.

Keith Beauchamp, a 39-year-old documentary filmmaker from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and CBS News, produced The Injustice Files.

The first program centers on the case of Wharlest Jackson, who in 1967 was a father of five children and the treasurer of the NAACP's local office in Natchez, Mississippi.

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Jackson worked in the Armstrong Rubber company plant in Natchez. He was a Korean War combat veteran trying to provide for his family. When he was offered a promotion his wife pleaded with him not to take it for fear of his safety.

Back then it was generally understood that Blacks working in the plant were not supposed to be promoted to management jobs.

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