Speakers on the Square: Mississippi Burning

On June 20, 1964 Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner met in Mississippi to help train volunteers for a statewide voter registration drive, as part of "Freedom Summer." One day later, they lost their lives at the hands of Ku Klux Klan members in rural Neshoba County. This act of violence spurned one of the largest F.B.I. manhunts in US history, lasting six weeks, and culminating with the discovery of the bodies of the victims. Although seven men were convicted on federal civil rights charges, the perpetrators never faced state murder charges.
Join Pulitzer prize-winning author Dr. David Oshinsky for a discussion of his New York Times investigation that helped bring justice to the 1964 "Mississippi Burning" civil rights murders. A leading historian of modern American politics and culture, Dr. Oshinsky was the 2009 Jacob K. Javits Visiting Professor at New York University and holds the Jack S. Blanton Chair in History at the University of Texas. His essays and reviews appear regularly in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other national publications.

[@EduardoSanchez-uk8gw]

I had an experience in the 1970s, driving to Texas I stopped in Mississippi to eat something Sunday afternoon, people started to get out church and arriving to the restaurant I have brown skin long black hair as people arrived the hair in the back of my neck stood up I felt very uncomfortable and left. I didn't stop until have left the state. I finished my trip and returned to New Jersey, sometime later I had the opportunity to watch the film in question. Never again I stopped in Mississippi and to this date I don't STOP.

[@user-io4oc8fi2s]

mississippi creeps me out. i never drive through there at night

[@TexasMan77]

Great video! I just read a book about the kidnapping & murder of the 3 workers, called "we are not afraid" check it out.