Murder In Mississippi Essay Thesis

Planned and executed murder is not just conspiracy, it is murder. In 1964 the civil rights movement was moving across the country. Black men and women were given the right to vote by our Constitution, but Jim Crow laws still denied these men and women their American right to vote. Howard Ball writer of Murder in Mississippi retells the story Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman. Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman were civil rights activists working in Mississippi during 1964. Mississippi was not in favor of the repeal of Jim Crow laws and desegregation. Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman were working in Mississippi for the voting rights of the black population. One fateful day Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman were kidnapped and murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. The state of Mississippi had not sympathy for the civil rights movement. The federal government tried to step in and solve the case of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman but found resistance along the way. The most important obstacles the federal government faced in pursuing justice in this case was the lack of help from the people of Mississippi, Mississippi’s corrupted government, the lack of jurisdiction, the view of …show more content…
Even though the Ku Klux Klan did not have an offical group in Mississippi another group was formed with a similar ideology of the Ku Klux Klan. The White Citizens Council made the Ku Klux Klan unnecessary in the state of Mississippi until February 1964. The White Citizens Council conducted their own forms of racially motivated violence against blacks in Mississippi. The White Citizens Council were responsible for murders, lynchings, bombing and police brutality against blacks in Mississippi. The White Citizens Council was made of the people of Mississippi and at one moment had 85,000 members. The White Citizens Council not only had the people but their reached also went into the government of Mississippi. (Ball