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Author Fireside, Harvey.

Title The "Mississippi Burning" civil rights murder conspiracy trial : a headline court case / Harvey Fireside.

Publication Info. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, [2002]
©2002

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Children's Department  JUV. 345.73 F523M    Check Shelf
Description 112 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Series Headline court cases
Headline court cases.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 109) and index.
Contents Three missing civil rights workers -- Mississippi-civil rights battleground -- On the trail of the suspects -- The road to justice -- The civil rights trial in Meridian -- In the wake of "Mississippi Burning."
Summary Examines the trials of the men accused of murdering three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964, including the Supreme Court decision to try to 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.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 9.8 4.0 62863.
Subject Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi -- Meridian -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Trials (Murder)
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi.
Trials (Homicide) -- Mississippi -- Meridian -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN 0766017621
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