Title: The "Mississippi Burning" civil rights murder conspiracy trial
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.
Subjects: Civil rights movements, Trials (Murder), Juvenile literature, Civil rights, African Americans, History, Trials (murder), Civil rights movements, united states, African americans, civil rights
Places: Mississippi, Meridian