In 1964, civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were murdered for attempting to register African American voters in Neshoba, Miss. Filmmaker Micki Dickoff was 17 at ...

June 21, 1964, was an ordinary day for many Americans, but for three civil rights workers in Mississippi, it was the day their lives would end, and the fires of the civil rights movement were stoked, ...

It was a warm summer day in Neshoba County, Miss. in June 1964. Three young men arrived to investigate a church fire bombing. It was about to become red hot. James E. Chaney, Andy Goodman and Mickey ...

With the end of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Chicago and Milwaukee, now comes time for both action and historical reflection. In 1960, Chicago native Bob Moses travelled from ...

Edgar Ray Killen goes on trial Monday, charged with orchestrating the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi. It would be the second time Killen, 80, faces a jury on charges related ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Never before seen case ...

PHILADELPHIA, Miss., June 21 -- -- A Mississippi jury convicted an elderly former Ku Klux Klan leader of manslaughter Tuesday for the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in a case that raised ...

History and memory : settling Longdale, Mississippi, and Mt. Zion Methodist Church. As we remembered Zion, 1833-1890 ; Mt. Zion Church and its memories, 1878 on ; "I was never scared" : Mt. Zion in ...

Royal Family Productions will present a benefit reading of Ben Rosenbach's The Neshoba Incident on Sunday, June 23rd, at 4:30 PM and Monday, June 24th, at 3PM. All proceeds will help further support ...