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Mississippi Burning
Original Air Date: July 3, 2005
Show Category: Race
Show Description: In many cases, the wheels of justice turn slowly, but 41 years must have seemed like an eternity for the families of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. The movie ?Mississippi Burning? depicted the abduction and murder of the civil rights workers, while also detailing the cover-up that led to no one being convicted of murder in the case. Last week, Edgar Ray Killen, now 80, was convicted of manslaughter in the case and sentenced to 60 years in prison. Killen was tried along with several others in 1967 on federal charges of violating the victims' civil rights. In 1967, the all-white jury deadlocked in Killen's case, but seven others were convicted. None served more than six years. Killen is the only person ever indicted on state murder charges in the case. I am delighted that justice has finally been served in this case. This case serves as a terrible reminder of the inhumanity that man is capable of. My own family experienced some of the trauma of the era in Mississippi. I am proud that my uncle had a vision of a church and a nation for all people, all God's people. However, that vision turned his own life upside down. In America, we have come a long way since the early 1960?s, but we still have a long way to go. Liberty and justice are for everyone. That is who we are.



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