History Casts Long Shadow On Trial Of Murders Of Civil Rights Workers

PHILADELPHIA, MS - JUNE 10: A Historical marker near the Mt. Zion United Methodist Church serves as a reminder of the murders of three men, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman June 10, 2005 in Philadelphia, Mississippi. The men were sent to investigate a fire at the church and beatings of church members by Klansmen. The men later disappeared and their bodies were discovered Aug. 4, 1964, in an earthen dam outside of Philadelphia. The case, which came to be known as Mississippi Burning, was said to have paved the way for the U.S. civil rights movement. The man accused in the deaths, Edgar Ray Killen, 80, is due to stand trial June 13, 2005 in the nearby city of Philadelphia. (Photo by Marianne Todd/Getty Images)