The murders were dramatized in the 1988 Oscar-winning movie Mississippi Burning. "My heart was with them," said Harriet Rosenberg of Mahopac, who graduated from Pelham a year before Schwerner.

Klansman Ray Killen is charged with the notorious murders of three civil rights workers in the American state of Mississippi in 1964. The case against him has re-opened the history file on the ...

A Mississippi town still grapples with that violent civil rights history PHILADELPHIA, Miss. — Even in a decade marked by hatred and violence, what happened here on a sultry June night 60 years ...

On May 31st, James Chaney, a Black organizer from nearby Meridian, and Michael Schwerner, a white civil-rights worker from New York City, held a community meeting at Mount Zion, a Black church in ...

Challenging the Republican who took the Dobbs case to the Supreme Court, Greta Kemp Martin champions civil rights, worker rights, and reproductive rights. Greta Kemp Martin, the Democratic nominee ...

Mississippi is home to many sites on the national Civil Rights Trail.The state is steeped in culture, like the delta region's rich history as the birthplace of the blues.

Six weeks earlier, the small town of Philadelphia, Mississippi, hadn’t been a familiar sight in national newspaper headlines. That changed on June 21, 1964, when James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and ...

Instead, on December 4, the Justice Department charged 21 men with conspiring to violate Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman’s civil rights. Prosecutors brought the charges before a federal grand ...

Perkins Smith, an associate professor, added that the project’s focus is to represent the daily lives, achievements and struggles of Black Mississippians who are not a part of the state’s well-known ...

Mississippi "Goon Squad" officers sentenced for torturing Black men 06:19. The Justice Department on Thursday announced it is opening a civil rights investigation into Rankin County, Mississippi ...

Hollis Watkins, who started challenging segregation and racial oppression in his native Mississippi when he was a teenager and toiled alongside civil rights icons including Medgar Evers and Bob ...

During the Civil Rights Era, our people endured struggles and sacrifices in order for us to live life as we know it. However, they had to survive the likes of a horror film to do so. And most time ...