The remediation program assesses and supports policy measures to redress the harms, including prosecution, truth and reconciliation proceedings, state pardons, and apologies by state and private entities who bear responsibility for the harms.

Led by scholars at Northeastern University, CRRJ collaborates closely with outside scholars, activists in the civil rights community, and non-academic researchers.

CRRJ's agenda is two-fold:

1. Research on law enforcement and government repression during the civil rights era
2. Support for policy initiatives that address the legacy of law enforcement failures and repression

CRRJ launched its program in 2006 with a law student project - Redressing Harms to Civil Rights Activists in the Deep South: 1955 to 1965.

In April 2007 CRRJ sponsored a national conference on Crimes of the Civil Rights Era. The conference brought together survivors of anti-civil rights crimes, cold-case prosecutors, journalists, legislators, and academics to assess the movement to revisit these past civil rights crimes and to consider remedial approaches. The conference provided support for a network of individuals working on these issues. The conference helped CRRJ to understand the dimensions of its research agenda and to prioritize its policy goals.

The assault on the civil rights movement was multifaceted and pervasive. It persisted over decades. The country has yet to fully understand the political costs of these violations or to come to terms with the consequences of their repression. Only by carefully reconstructing these events can we establish how law enforcement undermined democracy, and only then can we proceed to repair and restore community justice. These objectives are of particular urgency now, for as time passes, the civil rights movement is receding into history. Without a full and honest account of how civil rights era repression betrayed core American values, that history will be incomplete and impoverished.