In 1964, civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were murdered for attempting to register African American voters in Neshoba, Miss. Filmmaker Micki Dickoff was 17 at ...

On June 21, during the Freedom Summer of 1964, two young Jews from New York and an African American from Mississippi were murdered while on a mission to register black voters in the South. They were ...

For Blacks of a certain age, the May 25 knee-on-neck killing of George Floyd by a White police officer evokes that awful time in the summer of 1964 when young civil rights activists James Chaney, ...

Civil rights icon James Meredith, who broke the color barrier at the University of Mississippi in 1962, is scheduled to speak during the 49th annual memorial service for three civil rights workers ...

A Neshoba County, Mississippi jury on Tuesday convicted Edgar Ray Killen of manslaughter in the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers. The 81-year-old Baptist preacher, who instigated and ...

The talk around town made it easy for most people in Philadelphia, Miss., to dismiss the disturbing events that began in the summer of 1964. People said the disappearance of three civil rights workers ...

JACKSON, Miss. — Edgar Ray Killen, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted in the 1964 ‘Mississippi Burning’ slayings of three civil-rights workers, has died in prison at the age of 92, the ...

Civil rights veteran and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, is scheduled to speak Sunday during the 50th annual memorial service for three civil rights workers killed in Neshoba County in 1964.Lewis is ...