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The civil-rights workers' burnt-out car was found parked near a swamp three days after their disappearance. [2] [3] An extensive search of the area was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), local and state authorities, and 400 U.S. Navy sailors. [4] Their bodies were not discovered until seven weeks later, when the team ...
American civil rights activist Jackson, Mississippi United States: Byron De La Beckwith: Louis Allen: 1964: 31 January American voting rights activist Amite County, Mississippi United States: Disputed James Chaney: 1964: 21 June American civil rights Mississippi United States: Ku Klux Klan: Andrew Goodman: 1964: 21 June American civil rights ...
Michael Henry Schwerner (November 6, 1939 – June 21, 1964) was an American civil rights activist.He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) field workers murdered in rural Neshoba County, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
4 civil rights workers were killed (one in a head-on collision) 4 people were critically wounded; At least 3 Mississippi Black people were murdered because of their support for the Civil Rights Movement; Volunteers were attacked almost as soon as the campaign started.
James Earl Chaney (May 30, 1943 – June 21, 1964) was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan on June 21, 1964. The others were Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner from New York City.
Viola Fauver Liuzzo (née Gregg; April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965) was an American civil rights activist in Detroit, Michigan.She was known for going to Alabama in March 1965 to support the Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights.
Kiah Duggins, a 30-year-old civil rights lawyer and former Miss Kansas contestant has been confirmed as one of the victims in the American Airlines crash that occurred on Wednesday, Jan. 29.
The documentary film Ridgen was viewing in the CBC archive was called Summer in Mississippi (1964), [11] it was about the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, the three civil rights workers killed by Klansmen in a case that would become known by its FBI codename, "Mississippi Burning". Ridgen immediately wondered why ...