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History of Mississippi Burning

It was June 1964, the start of "Freedom Summer," an initiative to register southern blacks to vote and a response to the KKK's campaign of intimidation. On June 21, three activists disappeared, their burned station wagon presaging the worst. Our case was termed "MIBURN," for Mississippi Burning.
 

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