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American minister and civil rights activist Alabama United States: mob Viola Liuzzo: 1965: 25 March American civil rights activist Selma, Alabama United States: Ku Klux Klan: Jonathan Daniels: 1965: 20 August American civil rights activist Hayneville, Alabama United States: Tom Coleman Mehdi Ben Barka: 1965: 29 October Moroccan revolutionary ...
The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders, or the Mississippi Burning murders, were the abduction and murder of three activists in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in June 1964, during the Civil Rights Movement.
Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner (13 P) Pages in category "Assassinated American civil rights activists" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
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 killed in rural Neshoba County, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Goodman was Jewish, like fellow civil rights activist Michael Schwerner, alongside whom Goodman would be murdered. [3] Goodman's neighborhood was a racially-mixed community of white, black, and Hispanic families. [4] The Goodman family was involved in intellectual and socially progressive activism and were devoted to social justice. His mother ...
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 killed 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.
Claudette Colvin is a civil rights activist and retired nurse aide from Montgomery, Alabama. What did Claudette Colvin accomplish? Like Rosa Parks, Colvin was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give ...
An investigation by Mississippi civil rights workers led to the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. 1964 July 30 Mount Moriah Baptist Church near Meridian, Mississippi was leveled by fire. This attack is connected to countless others that were meant to intimidate Black residents who were active in the Civil rights movement. [5]