57. Mississippi Burning

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For the fourth week of Black History Month, Amanda and Lauren return to Mississippi in the Civil Rights Movement era to discuss the murders of three civil rights workers in June 1964 - Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman. This case is most commonly known as the Mississippi Burning case, or MIBURN, and it's a real doozy, everyone.
Sources:

• The US Code
• FBI website: “Mississippi Burning”
• FBI website: “A Byte Out of History: 50 Years Since ‘Mississippi Burning’”
• University of Virginia Miller Center: “Mississippi Burning” by Kent Germany and David Carter
• PBS American Experience: “Murder in Mississippi”
• UMKC School of Law Famous Trials: “The ‘Mississippi Burning’ Trial: An Account”
• CBS News: “Case files and photos from 1964 ‘Mississippi Burning’ murders of civil rights workers made public for first time” by the Associated Press
• Mississippi Today: “On This Day: June 21, 1964” by Jerry Mitchell
• The Zinn Education Project: “This Day in History: June 21, 1964: Three Civil Rights Workers Murdered in Mississippi”
• US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division: “Michael Schwerner - James Chaney - Andrew Goodman” and case files
• History.com: “This Day in History: August 4: Slain civil rights workers found”
• Civil Rights Digital Library: “MIBURN (Mississippi Burning)”
• The Gospel Coalition: “9 Things You Should Know about the ‘Mississippi Burning’ Murders” by Joe Carter
• Teen Vogue: “The Mississippi Burning Murders Changed Civil Rights History” by Alexa Stevens
• Real Crime channel (YouTube): “KKK Mob Kills Three Civil Rights Workers | The FBI Files | Real Crime”
• The FBI Files channel (YouTube): “The True Story of Mississippi Burning | Full Episode | The FBI Files”
• Criminology podcast: “Mississippi Burning”
• Wikipedia

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1. 57. Mississippi Burning (00:00:00)

2. [Ad] The Nerd Informer (00:12:51)

3. (Cont.) 57. Mississippi Burning (00:13:33)