Mississippi Burning
Mississippi Freedom Summer Remembered
"On June 21, 1964, voting rights activists James Chaney, AndrewGoodman and Michael Schwerner, who had come here to investigate theburning of Mr. Zion Church, were murdered. Victims of a Klanconspiracy, their deaths provoked national outrage and led to thefirst successful prosecution of a civil rights case in Mississippi." ... On June 17, Mt. Zion Church was burned to the ground, one of 20 blackchurches to be firebombed across the state during that Freedom Summer.The federal government's law enforcement agency, the Federal Bureau ofInvestigation (FBI), began a massive inquiry into the bombings,codenamed "MIBURN" -- for Mississippi Burning. President LyndonJohnson and Attorney General Robert Kennedy became personally involvedin the case, urging FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to aggressivelypursue every lead. ... [Read More]
Federal Bureau of Investigation - Investigative Programs - Civil Rights
The FBI's role in civil rights investigations dates back to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This legislation was passed by Congress after President Lyndon Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress on November 23, 1963, and called for them "to write the next chapter of equal rights and to write it in the book of law." Prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal government, under the leadership of both Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, took the position that protection of civil rights was a local function, not a federal one. However, the murders of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney, near Philadelphia, Mississippi, in June 1964, provided the impetus for a visible and sustained federal effort to protect and foster civil rights for blacks. MIBURN, as the case was called (it stood for Mississippi Burning), became the largest federal investigation ever conducted in Mississippi. On October 20, 1967, seven men were convi ... [Read More]
The Natural Environment - Volume 2 - Draft Heritage Study and Environmental Assessment
Clarence Cannon National Wildlife Refuge , which was established in 1964, contains 3,747 acres along the Mississippi River in Missouri. Made up of permanent and seasonally flooded impoundments, forests, grasslands, and crop fields, the refuge serves as another link in the chain of migratory bird refuges along the river. A variety of management techniques are use to enhance habitat diversity, including mowing, disking, limited farming, burning, fallowing, and water-level manipulation. ... [Read More]
National Wildfire Programs Database
As a part of the MFC prescribed burning program, members of the state’s wildfire prevention team have engaged landowners, the media, and local government officials to explain the purpose behind fuel reduction burning. This educational effort has helped the MFC accomplish more burning in areas where smoke could have been an issue. Once residents had seen the benefits of reduced wildland fuels around their homes they were more tolerant of the smoke impacts. ... During the period from June 2003 until February 2005 the MFC burned 4,164 acres in the wildland urban interface. These prescribed burns were conducted in areas with 11,642 homes. Burns were conducted around the municipalities of Bay St. Louis, Carthage, Sumrall, Walnut Grove, and Wiggins, the communities of Call Town, Lizana, Necaise, Red Water, and Saucier. Several other un-named population clusters were also protected. These prescribed fire treatments were funded with 2003 National Fire Plan monies. The State has also completed 12,674 acres of prescribed burning adjacent to USFS lands under the Stephens amendment to the National Fire Plan since April of 2004. ... [Read More]
Recreation.gov
Each refuge division has unique characteristics. The Louisa Division is the most intensively managed via water-level manipulation, controlled burning, grassland management, and tree planting activities. Big Timber is a forested backwater slough open to the Mississippi River. Keithsburg is a forested backwater slough leveed off from the Mississippi. The newest division, Horseshoe Bend, is being restored to native vegetation, including bottomland hardwoods, wetlands, and native prairie. It is open to floodwaters of the Iowa River. ... [Read More]
NWCG Wildland Fire Web Sites - Prescribed Fire, Pg. 1
Effect of Thinning and Prescribed Burning on Wildfire Severity in Ponderosa Pine Forests - ... Response of Plant and Animal Communities to Prescribed Burning and Herbicide Treatments in Loblolly Pine Plantations in Mississippi ... Response of Plant and AnimalCommunities to Prescribed Burning and HerbicideTreatments in Loblolly Pine Plantations in Mississippi ... [Read More]
Congressman Edward J. Markey, Massachusetts, 7th District, Woburn
4. Mississippi Burning, a film by Woburn High graduates Nick Paleologos and Fred Zollo, was nominated for 7 Academy Awards in 1989. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Mississippi Freedom Summer Remembered
On June 17, Mt. Zion Church was burned to the ground, one of 20 black churches to be firebombed across the state during that Freedom Summer. The federal government's law enforcement agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), began a massive inquiry into the bombings, codenamed "MIBURN" -- for Mississippi Burning. President Lyndon Johnson and Attorney General Robert Kennedy became personally involved in the case, urging FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to aggressively pursue every lead. ... [Read More]
Civil Rights Resource Manual 147 Response to Defendant's Motion to Suppress
FN1. The Prince George's County officials who investigated the incidentcannot now recall how they obtained the information that one of the trucksleaving the scene of the cross burning was blue. Grand jury testimony regardingthe Branch Avenue incident does suggest, however, that two pickup trucks wereseen in the vicinity at the time of the cross burning. One witness testifiedthat as he was driving southbound on Branch Avenue, just before coming upon theburning cross, he noticed a full-size pickup truck with a Confederate flag acrossthe back window parked off the right side of Branch Avenue. He previously toldinvestigators that he also observed two white males running across Branch Avenuetoward the parked truck. At the time of the grand jury session, he could notrecall the color of the truck. Another witness testified that while the crosswas burning, he saw a red Dodge pickup truck with the partial license number 215and a Confederate flag in the back window parked in a different locatio ... [Read More]
Visible Earth: Fires in south central United States
What they lack in drama, the fires in the Southeast U.S. make up for in numbers each year. There are more fires in the Mississippi Valley, the Plains and the Southeast every year than there are out West, but they are generally much smaller and do not gain the attention of the national news media. This image captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite on September 16, 2003, shows dozens of actively burning fires (red dots) in the states east and west of the Mississippi River Plain, which cuts vertically through the image. States shown include (bottom row, left to right) Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. North of Louisiana, numerous fires are burning in Arkansas. Left and right of Arkansas are Oklahoma and Tennessee, respectively. Across the top (left to right) are Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky. The vegetation that is spread over the region is showing little sign of the approaching autumn equinox. ... [Read More]
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