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, ...

On June 21, 1964, three young men disappeared near the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi. Michael (Mickey) Schwerner and James Chaney worked for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in nearby ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

Jun. 10—This year will mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Civl Rights Act of 1964, and community leaders are using the anniversary to remind residents of the high price paid for their ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Neshoba County (MS) Circuit Court has hosted 6 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2005 Judicial Proceeding. Most appearances with Marcus D. Gordon (7), ...

In June of 1964, three young civil rights workers disappeared in Neshoba County, Miss. That summer, the story of James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner gripped many people — ...

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 ...