52 Year Old 'Mississippi Burning' Civil Rights Case Closed
Investigation into the killings of 3 civil rights workers during Mississippi’s “Freedom Summer,” was closed after 52 years as no new evidence came forward. The 1964 killings of James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner spurred passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and later became the subject of the film “Mississippi Burning.”
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