Wanting it to be true does not make it true, Washington Post. This isn’t journalism. It’s a smear campaign against Mississippi and against Christians in that state. The Washington-Seoul-Tokyo ...

On a hilltop in a small Mississippi town ... They were hatemongers, extremists who were burning down churches and beating up ...

The triple killing was also the basis for the 1988 Oscar-winning film Mississippi Burning. The movie is a fictionalised take on the events named after the FBI investigation into the case.

members of the Klan burned 20 black Mississippi churches. On June 16, Klan members targeted Neshoba County's Mt. Zion Baptist Church, where Schwerner had spent time working. Before burning the ...