Topic summary
States' rights speech
On August 3, 1980, presidential candidate Ronald Reagan appeared at the Neshoba County Fair in Neshoba County, Mississippi, to give a speech on states' rights. The location, which was near the site of the 1964 murders of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner by Ku Klux Klan members was, according to critics, evidence of racial bias.