Mississippi Burning" refers to the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers - Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney - in Neshoba County, Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Their deaths sparked a large FBI investigation that eventually led to the arrest and imprisonment of some of the perpetrators years later. In 1988, the film "Mississippi Burning" was released depicting these events and trials, bringing widespread attention to this tragic case from the Civil Rights era.