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In 1967 Three civil rights workers ware shot to death in a small town in Mississippi. There names where Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney. The three boys come to Mississippi to participate in a summer project for hunbreds of college kids. Many people predicted tis tragedy. After the three boys came up missing the FBI had a all-out search for the conspirators who killed them. This was a long three year search. |
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Justice Department team led by John Doar prosecuted eighteen Klan conspirators, including the Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff of Philadelphia, for violating the civil rights of the three young workers. Despite facing an all-white jury and a segregationist judge who once called a group of black witnesses in a civil rights case "chimpanzees," Doar succeeded in winning the first convictions ever recorded in a civil rights case in Mississippi, the hard heart of white resistance.
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