on June 21, 1964, the three men in the car were ... later giving federal investigators the case’s infamous name: Mississippi Burning, abbreviated to MIBURN. What is known of the men’s final ...
On June 21, 1964 ... 20 black Mississippi churches. On June 16, Klan members targeted Neshoba County's Mt. Zion Baptist Church, where Schwerner had spent time working. Before burning the church ...
Six weeks earlier, the small town of Philadelphia, Mississippi, hadn’t been a familiar sight in national newspaper headlines.