The Mississippi Burning Trial: A Bibliography

Now available on the Internet:
The 948-page summary of the FBI's MIBURN ("Mississippi Burning") investigation.
To go to the FBI documents, click here: MIBURN DOCUMENTS

Documents

Prosecutive Summary of the Investigation of the Abduction and Murder of James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Henry Schwerner on June 21, 1964 (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
United States of America v. Cecil Ray Price et al., Criminal Action No. 5291, heard in Federal District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi in Meridian, October 11-21, 1967 (trial transcript)

Books

Belfrage, Sally. Freedom Summer (Viking Press, 1965)
McCord, William. Mississippi: The Long Hot Summer (Norton, 1965)
McIlhany, William. Klandestine: The Untold Story of Delmar Dennis (Arlington House, 1975)
Mars, Florence. Witness at Philadelphia (Louisiana University Press, 1976)
Mendelsohn, Jack. The Martyrs: 16 Who Gave Their Lives for Justice (Harper & Row, 1966)
Rothschild, Mary Aiken. A Case of Black and White: Northern Volunteers and the Southern Freedom Summers (Greenwood, 1982)

Whitehead, Don, Attack on Terror: The FBI Against the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi (Funk & Wagnalls, 1970)

Periodicals

Atwater, James. "If We Can Crack Mississippi," The Saturday Evening Post, July 2, 1964
Hendrickson, Paul. "20 Years Ago in the Heat of the Night," Washington Post, July 10, 1984
Lomax, Louis E. "The Road to Mississippi," Ramparts special edition, 1964
Nevin, David. "A Strange Tight Little Town, Loathe to Admit Complicity" Life, December 18, 1964
Spain, David M. "Mississippi Autopsy" Ramparts, special edition, 1964
"A Recollection of Michael Schwerner" The Reporter, July 16, 1964

Video

Orion Pictures, "Mississippi Burning" (1988)(fictionalized)
WBZ-TV Boston,"Mississippi Summer: The Unfinished Journey" (1984)

Internet

Buford Posey's Account of Murders

Mississippi and Freedom Summer

LBJ got conflicting input

Finding the Bodies: New Details on the FBI's $30,000 Reward (Jerry Mitchell, Clarion Ledger)

Review of "Mississippi Burning"