The "Mississippi Burning" civil rights murder conspiracy trial
Subtitle: a headline court case
By: Harvey Fireside.
Series: Headline court cases
Publisher: Enslow Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley Heights, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi -- Meridian -- Juvenile literature; Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- Juvenile literature; Trials (Murder); Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 109) and index.
Table of contents: title: Three missing civil rights workers; title: Mississippi-civil rights battleground; title: On the trail of the suspects; title: The road to justice; title: The civil rights trial in Meridian; title: In the wake of "Mississippi Burning."