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 ...

With the end of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Chicago and Milwaukee, now comes time for both action and historical reflection. In 1960, Chicago native Bob Moses travelled from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The recent arson that destroyed Beth Israel, Jackson, Miss.’s only synagogue, evokes that state’s dark legacy of violence toward ...

JACKSON, Miss., Jan 25 (Reuters) - A former Ku Klux Klan member pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges in the 1964 murders of two black teenagers in Mississippi, in a case that highlights violence ...

Trigger Warning: This article contains graphic imagery. Mississippi Burning is a popular crime thriller film from 1988, loosely based on the true story of three civil rights activists who were ...

We continue now with the story of the murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964 as remembered by commentator and former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite. (Soundbite of "CBS Evening ...

In 1964, in many rural counties of Mississippi, African Americans made up the majority of the population. The segregationist white establishment was prepared to use any means necessary to keep them ...

The recent arson that destroyed Beth Israel, Jackson, Miss.’s only synagogue, evokes that state’s dark legacy of violence toward those supporting racial equality — one stretching back more than 60 ...