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NATION, Page 23American NotesMISSISSIPPILiving Down The Past
Though eight members of the Ku Klux Klan served prison
sentences on federal charges of conspiring to deny the civil rights
of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, no state
charges were ever filed against the killers of the three civil
rights workers, who were slain near Philadelphia, Miss., during the
Freedom Summer of 1964. That may now change. Two weeks ago,
Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore announced that he is
considering reopening the case.
Philadelphia has been trying to live down its reputation for
racial violence, which was revived by the movie Mississippi
Burning, loosely based on the case. Last week several hundred
people gathered to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the crime.
Relatives of the slain workers then journeyed to Washington for
another commemoration and a White House meeting with President
Bush, who described the young men as heroes. But when the families
implored Bush to promise that he would support attempts to reverse
a recent Supreme Court ruling widely considered to be a setback for
civil rights, the President declined.