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Three lives for Mississippi

2000
Offers a documentary account of the events that took place in Mississippi in the summer of 1964, when three young Civil Rights activists were abducted and murdered.

Murder in Mississippi

United States v. Price and the struggle for civil rights
2004
Recounts the story of the three Civil Rights workers murdered in Mississippi in the summer of 1964 and examines the struggle for racial equality in that part of the south.

Justice in Mississippi

the murder trial of Edgar Ray Killen
2006
Recounts the 2005 murder trial of Edgar Ray Killen, who in 1964, was involved in the killing of three civil rights worker in Philadelphia, Mississippi, retracing the cycle of events, prosecution and defense strategies, and the verdict that sentenced the elderly Killen to 180 years in prison.

The Mississippi burning trial

a primary source account
2004
Chronicles the 1964 trial of a group of Mississippi Ku Klux Klan members for killing James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, civil rights activists who had come to the state to investigate the burning of a church, and presents numerous primary source excerpts and photos.

Murder in Mississippi

the 1964 freedom summer killings
2006
Examines the murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964 and the Federal investigation that followed.
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