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6 days ago · The most moving quotes from Mississippi Burning capture the intense emotions and turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s US civil rights movement.
Sep 18, 2024 · Sixty years on we remember Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner – young men trying to do what was right and good, yet inescapably running afoul of Mississippi’s white supremacist mindset. Let’s also remember Justice Anderson’s words – moving forward together, hope, and better prospects.
Sep 17, 2024 · Two days later the need for that legislation became clear when three civil rights workers disappeared under suspicious circumstances in Mississippi. Two of the workers were white and from the north, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman. The third, James Chaney, was black and from Mississippi.
Sep 22, 2024 · In 1964, the Ku Klux Klan, riding high on a string of murders, killed three civil rights activists in what would famously become known as the “Mississippi Burning” murders. The Klan buried their bodies in a dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi, sparking a nationwide manhunt.
Oct 2, 2024 · JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Edgar Ray Killen, convicted of manslaughter in 2005 for the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers in what became known as the “Mississippi Burning” case.
5 days ago · Amid a push to register voters in 2024, advocates who risked their lives to do the same in Mississippi's1964 Freedom Summer project reflect on the legacy of the movement.
Sep 25, 2024 · PHILADELPHIA, Miss. – (AP) Olen Burrage, who was acquitted in the case of three civil rights workers killed by Ku Klux Klansmen in Mississippi in the 1960s, has died. He was 82. Burrage died Friday March 8 at a hospital, the McClain-Hays Funeral Home Chapel said.
