Writers - Civil Rights Investigative Reporters - Photo Gallery

(Diane McWhorter, Karl Fleming, Jerry Mitchell)

Pulitzer Prize Winner Diane McWhorter
Karl Fleming
Jerry Mitchell
Myrlie Evers Williams

Remains of the car James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were driving
Dam where the the 3 young men's bodies were found

 
Edgar Ray Killen then in 1964

Edgar Ray Killen on trial, convicted of 3 counts of manslaugter

on June 21st, 2005

Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers giving a speech

June 19th 1963 Funeral

at Arlington National Cemetary

 Byron De La Beckwith though having 2 trials ending in hung juries, would finally face justice and be convicted on Feb. 5th, 1994, more than 30 years after the murder.
 
 
     
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