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June 27, 2021

Case files on 1964 civil rights worker killings made public

Unseen case files, photographs and other records on the killings of civil rights workers in Mississippi are available 57 years…
November 24, 2014

Obama to award Presidential Medal of Freedom to Stevie Wonder, Meryl Streep and others

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is presenting the nation’s highest civilian honor to 19 artists, activists, public servants and
November 4, 2013

Supreme Court rejects appeal of Schwerner-Chaney-Goodman 'Mississippi Burning' case

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Edgar Ray Killen, convicted of manslaughter…
March 19, 2013

Olen Burrage, suspect in 1964 Klan slayings, dies

PHILADELPHIA, Mississippi (AP) - Olen Burrage, who was acquitted in the case of three civil rights workers killed by Ku…
January 20, 2011

Haley Barbour: ‘Not much’ memory of civil rights era

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Barbour says he has little personal recollection of Freedom Summer activities in his state in 1964,…