Race Against Time
A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
by Jerry Mitchell
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appears in Crime, Mystery & Crime, and History.
On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings would become known as the _x0093_Mississippi Burning_x0094_ case and even though the killers_x0092_ identities, including the sheriff_x0092_s deputy, were an open secret, no one was charged with murder in the months and years that followed. It took fortyone years before the mast...
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appears in Crime, Mystery & Crime, and History.
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