additional Resources

Learn more about the Mississippi Burning case and Freedom Summer.

PBS American Experience documentary Freedom Summer is available for streaming and is accompanied by the article Murder in Mississippi, which provides additional details about the Mississippi Burning case.

Three Missing Workers | American Experience | PBSVolunteer Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons recalls hearing that fellow volunteers James Chaney, Mickey Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman were missing.

Murder in Mississippi | American Experience | PBSOn June 21, 1964, three young men disappeared near the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi.

Created by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mississippi Civil Rights Project contains oral histories and local primary sources related to the case.

FBI records and case files related to the Mississippi Burning investigation.

Mississippi Burning | Federal Bureau of InvestigationThe murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964 turned into one of Bureau’s biggest investigations of the era.

Music inspired by the Mississippi Burning case and Freedom Summer: