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The "Mississippi Burning" Civil Rights Murder Conspiracy Trial

By Fireside, Harvey

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Examines the trials of the men accused of murdering three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964, including the Supreme Court decision to try to defendants in a federal rather than a state court and the final verdicts which marked the first time, in Mississippi, that a jury convicted white men for killing African Americans or civil rights workers.

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978-0-76601-762-7
Publisher
Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2002.


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Reviewed on March 1, 2003

Gr 6-10 A straightforward, riveting account of the murders of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Earl Chaney, and Michael Schwerner in Mississippi in the summer of 1964 and the involvement of the Ku Klux Klan in the attempted cover-up. The roles of the people involved are clearly delineated-from the "elimination" o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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