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The murder of the activists sparked national outrage and an extensive federal investigation, filed as Mississippi Burning (MIBURN), which later became the title of a 1988 film loosely based on the events. In 1967, after the state government refused to prosecute, the United States federal government charged 18 individuals with civil rights ...
United States v. Cecil Price, et al., also known as the Mississippi Burning trial or Mississippi Burning case, was a criminal trial where the United States charged a group of 18 men with conspiring in a Ku Klux Klan plot to murder three young civil rights workers (Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman) in Philadelphia, Mississippi on June 21, 1964 during Freedom Summer.
Cecil Ray Price (April 15, 1938 – May 6, 2001) was an American police officer and white supremacist.He was a participant in the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in 1964.
James Earl Chaney (May 30, 1943 – June 21, 1964) was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan on June 21, 1964.
The Klansman was convicted more than 40 years after he plotted the 1964 slayings of three civil rights activists in the "Mississippi Burning" case.
The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders, or the Mississippi Burning murders, were the abductions and murders of three activists in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in June 1964, during the Civil Rights Movement.
Edgar Ray Killen, who had been in the State Penitentiary at Parchman, died in prison Thursday
Olen Lavelle Burrage (March 16, 1930 – March 15, 2013) was a Mississippi farmer and businessman who was tried and acquitted of the June 1964 murders of three civil rights workers. Burrage owned the farm where the bodies of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were found buried in an earthen dam.