[NEWS] Earlier this week a jury in Philadelphia, Mississippi, convicted a former Klansman of manslaughter for the deaths of three civil rights workers in 1964. Yesterday the judge sentenced him to three consecutive 20-year sentences. 41 Years Later, Ex-Klansman Gets 60 Years in Civil Rights Deaths - New York Times
A copy of the indictment is available on Findlaw.
Interested in the historical context of this current case? See
- "The Mississippi Burning Trial" by Douglas O. Linder (from Famous Trials).
- Biographies of the three young who were killed -- James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner.
- A 1999 speech by Ben Chaney, the brother of one of the victims.
- A Poli Sci professor's historical overview. Among other things, he notes that the murders were just three days after the Senate passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and before it was enacted.
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