U.S. v. Cecil Price et. al.

Arguably one of the most famous court cases in American history, United States v. Cecil Price et. al. (1967, also known as the Mississippi Burning trial) pitted the United States against a group of 18 men charged with conspiring in a Ku Klux Klan plot to murder three young civil rights workers (Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman) in Philadelphia, Mississippi on June 21, 1964. The trial, conducted in Meridian, Mississippi with U.S. District Court Judge W. Harold Cox presiding, resulted in convictions for 7 of the 18 defendants.

Related Topics:
American - 1967 - Ku Klux Klan - Civil rights - Michael Schwerner - James Chaney - Andrew Goodman - Philadelphia - Mississippi - June 21 - 1964 - Meridian - U.S. District Court - W. Harold Cox

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