JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Edgar Ray Killen, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted in the 1964 'Mississippi Burning' slayings of three civil rights workers, has died in prison at the age of 92, ...

JACKSON, Miss. — With a former Klansman now behind bars for a 1963 Alabama church bombing, the next major piece of unfinished business from the South’s segregationist past may be the murder of three ...

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 ...

A Klansman found guilty for his role in the 1964 Freedom Summer killings of three civil rights workers has died in prison, according to the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Edgar Ray Killen, a ...

Mississippi delved into its troubled past late yesterday as sheriff's deputies arrested an 80-year-old reputed Ku Klux Klan member on charges of killing three young voting rights workers in 1964 in ...

Mississippi officials are closing the investigation into the murder of three young civil rights workers by the Ku Klux Klan — more than 50 years after the men disappeared. The case had been closed for ...

Fictionalized account of two FBI agents investigating the disappearance of three civil rights activists in 1964 Mississippi. Makes the agency seem more benevolent than it really was, but an exciting ...

Gene Hackman starred in "Mississippi Burning," a film based on the 1964 murders of civil rights workers in Mississippi. The film was shot in various Mississippi locations, including Jackson, Canton, ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Edgar Ray Killen, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted in the 1964 "Mississippi Burning" slayings of three civil rights workers, has died in prison at the age of 92, ...