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01/08/2005:

"40 years on, Mississippi Burning case finally reaches trial"

Forty years after three civil rights workers were killed on a dirt road in Mississippi on a night that came to symbolise the racial hate of the American south, an elderly leader of the Ku Klux Klan appeared in court yesterday to be formally charged with their murder.

Full Article : guardian.co.uk