PHILADELPHIA, Miss. – The killings echo through time. They echo through the loblolly pines and red clay backwoods along the road where three men were executed by the Ku Klux Klan. They echo past ...

Evil has drawn a lot of attention over the years. The USA TODAY Network South spoke with authors and academics who studied Neshoba County and the aftermath of the evil done to three civil rights ...

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JACKSON, Mississippi — Never before seen case files, photographs and other records documenting the investigation into the infamous slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi are now open to ...

The killings of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman in Neshoba County 57 years ago sparked a wave of national grief and outrage, leading to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. And ...

Edgar Ray Killen, the former Klansman who was sentenced to a 60-year prison term in 2005 for arranging the murders of three young civil rights workers outside Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1964 during ...

I was a teenager the first time I saw the movie Mississippi Burning, and despite knowing even at that young age America’s capacity for hate and racism, I remember thinking: “Nah, that can’t be real.” ...

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. — Former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen went on trial for murder Wednesday with prosecutors telling jurors that he masterminded a 1964 ambush that left three civil rights ...

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Never before seen case files, photographs and other records documenting the investigation into the infamous slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi are now open to ...

June 27, 2021 Updated Sun., June 27, 2021 at 3:01 p.m. On June 29, 1964, the FBI began distributing these pictures of civil rights workers, from left, Michael Schwerner, 24, of New York, James Cheney, ...