The murder of three young Civil Rights workers, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, in Mississippi in 1964 is a part of our generation's collective memory. That the guilty Klansmen (prosecuted only on Civil Rights charges) are free today surprises no one. But Francovich probes other, hidden aspects of "the reign of racism" in Mississippi. In the sixties, the State Sovereignty Commission was an answer to Civil Rights, a source of official propaganda furthering the separation of the races. Before long, it was pulling in information on Civil Rights activities through a vast network of informants both white and black, and funneling it to the Klan, inciting them to do the job the Commission could not legally do. Murder in Mississippi's paper trail suggests that, through this network, Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman were effectively set up to be killed. Nine bodies were dredged from the river before the three in question were found. This was America's Dirty War, with its own spies, and its own "disappeared."