After more than a half-century of investigations, which have resulted in nine convictions, Mississippi state officials last week announced their decision to close the federally assisted probe into the 1964 murders of three civil rights activists—dubbed by the FBI the “Mississippi Burning Case.”
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said he would close the investigation into the murders of James Chaney, Michael “Mickey” Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, who were murdered by Ku Klux Klansmen in Mississippi in June 1964 while working to register disenfranchised African-Americans to vote as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project.
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