June 25, 1964 | CBS Special Report: The Search in Mississippi

June 25, 1964 - Here is a special CBS News report, anchored by Walter Cronkite, about the desperate search for three civil rights workers who went missing this week while trying to register Negro voters in Mississippi. The hour-long report features interviews with local officials and businessmen defending segregation in the state; civil rights workers on the violence unleashed upon activists; police on responding to protests, and local citizens about life under Jim Crow.

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