'It shocked white middle America': How the Mississippi Burning murders sparked landmark change in the US

[Hume]

Sixty-one years ago, the bodies of three murdered civil rights workers were found in the Deep South. The public's response to the FBI's Mississippi Burning investigation provided the impetus for enacting landmark civil rights legislation across the US.

When Julian Bond, the co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sat down to talk to the BBC in July 1964, it was just over two weeks since the disappearance of young civil rights workers in Mississippi had begun dominating the US news headlines.

'It shocked white middle America': How the Mississippi Burning murders sparked landmark change in the US

In August 1964, three civil rights activists were found dead in the Deep South. The public's response provided the impetus for new civil rights legislation in America.

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[EdwinA]

It was seeing Bull Conner's police dogs on national TV that did the most to gin support for the Civil Rights Acts. The BBC has always had some weird spins on U.S. history.

Those of us who lived through it ans saw it first hand know better. We also know how the racist radicals that eventually took over the Democratic Party, school systems, and the courts and started spreading hate and commie violence for the next 8 decades and warped it into the idiot dribbling lunacy that drives the left today.