'' United States v. Cecil Price , et al. '' , also known as the Mississippi Burning trial or Mississippi Burning case , was a criminal trial where the United States charged a group of 18 men with conspiring in a Ku Klux Klan plot to murder three young civil rights workers ( Michael Schwerner , James Chaney , and Andrew Goodman ) in Philadelphia , Mississippi on June 21 , 1964 during Freedom Summer . The trial , conducted in Meridian , Mississippi with U.S. District Court Judge W. Harold Cox presiding , resulted in convictions of 7 of the 18 defendants
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Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
United States v. Price