We are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for MississippiThis shocking true story was fictionalized for the movie Mississippi Burning but here is the real story of that dark night. The murders of three young civil rights workers sparked a hotbed of passion that caused a revolution in the South and the nation. |
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