Neshoba County civil rights murders
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The Neshoba County civil rights murders were the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan, a pivotal event that galvanized national support for the civil rights movement and helped spur passage of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.
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Philadelphia, Mississippi, United States