Decades later, Killen was charged with murder in a so-called Southern ... federal investigators the case’s infamous name: Mississippi Burning, abbreviated to MIBURN. What is known of the ...

Before burning the ... Imperial Wizard of Mississippi’s White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. (Bowers had a particular antipathy toward Schwerner, and had begun planning his murder in the spring ...

Their murder site on the side of a road is marked by a plaque. The town of Philadelphia, Mississippi ... extremists who were ...

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white.