The "Mississippi Burning" civil rights murder conspiracy trial : a headline court case / [by] Harvey Fireside.
Material type: TextSeries: Headline court casesPublication details: Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, 2002.Description: 112 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0766017621
- 345.73/02523 21
- KF224.M47 F57 2002
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | Sonoma Academy Library | 345.73 FIRESID (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 1000974 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Examines the trials of the men accused of murdering three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964, including the Supreme Court decision to try defendants in a federal rather than a state court and the final verdicts which marked the first time, in Mississippi, that a jury convicted white men for killing African Americans or civil rights workers.
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