Mississippi Civil Rights Workers' Murders - Legacy

Legacy

• Outrage at the murders aided passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act.
• Numerous memorials have been erected to the three civil rights activists.
• 1989, on the 25th anniversary of the murders, Congress passed a non-binding resolution honoring the three men; Senator Trent Lott and the rest of the Mississippi delegation refused to vote for it.
• Along with the trial and conviction of Edgar Killen in 2005, journalists and investigators in Mississippi continue to work to solve other murders associated with the civil rights years, as in the 2007 trial and conviction of James Ford Seale for the 1964 kidnapping and deaths of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore.