The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission was a secret state police force operating from 1956 to 1977 to suppress the civil rights movement and maintain segregation. The commission kept files, harassed and branded many as communist infiltrators via agents who were retired FBI, CIA and military intelligence. No one was safe in Mississsippi. A form of the Sovereignty Commission continues today in Mississippi. Ask Haley Barbour.
Mississippi officials first claimed it was a "hoax" that three civil rights volunteers were missing after their release from the Neshoba County jail at 10:30 p.m., Sunday, June 21, 1964.
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