What or who are the Mississippi Three?

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Could you be referring to three civil rights workers: Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney? All three shot in the dark of night on a lonely road in Neshoba County, Mississippi. Many people predicted such a tragedy when the Mississippi Summer Project, an effort that would bring hundreds of college-age volunteers to "the most totalitarian state in the country" was announced in April, 1964. http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/Account.html The FBI's all-out search for the conspirators who killed the three young men, depicted in the movie "Mississippi Burning," was successful, leading three years later to a trial in the courtroom of one of America's most determined segregationist judges. Feb 07 10, 7:31 AM

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And another, leter, trial: 'On Jan. 7, 2005, four decades after the crime, Edgar Ray Killen, then 80, was charged with three counts of murder. He was accused of orchestrating the killings and assembling the mob that killed the three men. On June 21—the 41st anniversary of the murders—Killen was convicted on three counts of manslaughter, a lesser charge.' http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmjustice4.html Feb 07 10, 1:23 PM