At the focal point of a shooting scandal: a mild-mannered neighbor who fixated on crime and focused on young, black males.

Testimony was heard in the trial of Edgar Ray Killen for the June 21, 1964, murders of 3 civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi. The reputed Klansman was indicted for slaying three civil rights workers who were in Mississippi in the summer of 1964 as part of a movement to register blacks to vote and help run educational programs in the South. The trial Mississippi v. Edgar Ray Killen was held at the Neshoba County Courthouse. Coverage was provided by WJTV (Jackson, MS) for Mississippi Public Broadcasting. Following the fourth day of testimony, Jurors announced they were firmly and evenly divided about the proper verdict. Neither the judge, nor the forewoman, referred to the division as a deadlock, and the panel was due back in court the next day to continue deliberations. ~No footage is available for the first day of the trial with the opening statements due to a problem with the courthouse audio system.

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On the Civil Rights Memorial are inscribed the names of individuals who lost their lives in the struggle for freedom during the modern civil rights movement 1954 to 1968. Between the first and last entries is a space that represents civil rights heroes who died before or after this period and others whose stories were not known when the Memorial was created. The martyrs include those who were targeted for death because of their civil rights activities; those who were random victims of vigilantes determined to halt the movement; and those who, in the sacrifice of their own lives, brought a new awareness of the struggle to people allover the world.

The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) conducts research and supports policy initiatives on anti-civil rights violence in the United States and other miscarriages of justice of that period. CRRJ serves as a resource for scholars, policymakers, and organizers involved in various initiatives seeking justice for crimes of the civil rights era.

NATCHEZ — Denise Ford and Wharlest Jackson Jr. say they will never forget their father’s ultimate sacrifice, and the Miss-Lou community shouldn’t either.

Wharlest Jackson Sr., 36, died on Feb. 27, 1967, when a planted bomb exploded in his Chevy pickup. Jackson, a black man, had recently been promoted at the Armstrong Tire Factory to a job that had been traditionally done by whites.

Jackson’s killers were never found.

Forty-three years later, Jackson is hailed as a civil rights hero who pushed for economic equality through faith and hard work. Ford and Wharlest Jr. want to honor their father’s legacy by placing a marker at the site of bombing on Minor Street, and are soliciting donations from the community.

These are the names of 74 men and women who died between 1952 and 1968 under circumstances suggesting they were the victims of racially motivated violence. The information below was gathered by the Southern Poverty Law Center as it planned a timeline of killings and other civil rights era events for the Civil Rights Memorial. The Memorial, dedicated in 1989, includes the names of 40 civil rights martyrs who were slain during that era. The names below were not inscribed on the Memorial because there was insufficient information about their deaths at the time the Memorial was created. They are, however, identified in a display at the Civil Rights Memorial Center as "The Forgotten."

The FBI is currently seeking information and next of kin for more than 100 unsolved civil rights murders that occurred prior to 1969. These cases are being reexamined as a result of the Civil Rights-era Cold Case Initiative, a joint effort with federal, state and local law enforcement partners, as well as community leaders and civic organizations. A partial listing of these cold cases is presented below.

Decades after the event, this programme follows the case of 79-year-old Edgar Ray Killen (pictured), the alleged perpetrator of the attacks, as he finally stands trial. With access to both the prosecutors a

The system, from slavery to violently enforced segregation to today's nuanced discrimination, remains without a national apology, no truth commission, no real sign that the nation is fully ready to understand its past. One Klansman is now behind bars. Ame

In a brief news conference, Mueller declined to go into details of any specific investigation from the civil rights era.

Six months before his death in June, former Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark, whose violent clashes with civil rights activists in Selma angered a nation, gave a statement defending a former state trooper accused of committing murder during a 1965 protest.

Thomas Moore, a retired Army Command Sargeant Major, and former Meadville, MS, resident, traveled to Syracuse, N.Y., to consult with Syracuse University Law College faculty and students who are working on the Frank Morris murder investigation.

Four decades after a Louisiana man was left to burn in his own store, Syracuse law students are trying to solve the crime

Retired Navy diver James Bladh testified Wednesday that his team found a human skull, railroad rails and other objects in a Mississippi River backwater in October 1964, nearly six months after two black teenagers disappeared.

Roland Mitchell, a deputy sheriff for Madison Parish, La., at the time of the killings, testified that he was among those who went out on what's known as the old Mississippi River near Tallulah, La., on July 12, 1964, when the lower torso of a human body

Edwards said there was a rumor in the small town of Meadville that Dee was part of a conspiracy to bring weapons into Southwest Mississippi for the beginning of a race riot. At a weekly KKK meeting, or as the Klansmen referred to it as the “Bunkley Hunt