More than 40 years ago, three civil rights workers were savagely slain in Neshoba County and that heinous crime was a watershed in the struggle for equality for African Americans. Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner disappeared while teaching and registering African American voters for the 1964 US federal election. In early 2005, in a landmark case that required the invervention of the US Supreme Court, a jury returned guilty verdicts against seven conspirators. Has the struggle for rights started 40 years ago been successful?

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