State Prosecutor Closes ‘Mississippi Burning’ Civil Rights Case

State Prosecutor Closes ‘Mississippi Burning’ Civil Rights Case

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After more than 50 years, officials are closing the investigation into one of the most notorious murders of the civil rights era — the Ku Klux Klan killing of three Mississippi Freedom Summer workers.

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