Mississippi officials are closing the investigation into the murder of three young civil rights workers by the Ku Klux Klan — more than 50 years after the men disappeared. The case had been closed for ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. MISSISSIPPI — A Klansman found guilty for ...

Left to right: the murdered civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Earl Chaney and Michael Henry Schwerner. It started with a traffic stop. A Black man driving with two White men was pulled over ...

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 ...

(Reuters) - Edgar Ray Killen, the preacher and Ku Klux Klansman convicted and sent to prison more than 40 years after he plotted the 1964 slayings of three civil rights activists in the "Mississippi ...

Fictionalized account of two FBI agents investigating the disappearance of three civil rights activists in 1964 Mississippi. Makes the agency seem more benevolent than it really was, but an exciting ...

PHILADELPHIA, Miss., June 23 -- -- Former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was wheeled before a judge Thursday, an 80-year-old relic of Mississippi's hate-filled past, and sentenced to 60 years in ...