Their efforts helped pave the way for the passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act in 1965 and their murders were dramatized in the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning." Andy Goodman's fateful ...

Both were going to investigate a church burning and Ben wanted to go ... and his eventual return to Mississippi to seek justice for his brother. Few knew that when Ben collapsed into his ...

They later became the subject of the film Mississippi Burning. Their relatives said the focus should not be only on the three men, but on all the people killed or hurt while seeking justice.

Mississippi Burning, abbreviated to MIBURN. FBI What is known of the men’s final hours – at the hands of Mississippi law enforcement and local Ku Klux Klan members – is detailed in ...

Throughout Mississippi and the south ... They were hatemongers, extremists who were burning down churches and beating up congregants. ‘The feeling around [now] feels like that sometimes ...

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 ...

This comment was immortalized by the late, great Gene Hackman in his role as FBI Agent Rupert Anderson in the 1988 film “Mississippi Burning.” As an experienced operative, he was advocating ...