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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 ...
Because Mississippi officials refused to prosecute the killers for murder, a state crime, the federal government, led by prosecutor John Doar, charged 18 individuals under 18 U.S.C. §242 and §371 with conspiring to deprive the three activists of their civil rights (by murder). They indicted Sheriff Rainey, Deputy Sheriff Price and 16 other men.
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.
Edgar Ray Killen (January 17, 1925 – January 11, 2018) was an American Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964.
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.
Steven Yinger, a convicted thief and conman who preyed on those around him, was convicted Friday in the grisly murder of Jorge Diaz Johnston, a noted gay rights activist who helped open the door ...
Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette V. S. Moore, were pioneer activists and leaders of the early Civil Rights Movement in the United States and became the first martyrs of the movement. On the night of Christmas, December 25, 1951, a bomb that had been planted under the bedroom floor of the Moores' home in Mims, Florida, exploded. [1]
The civil rights icon is being remembered by congressional colleagues, civil rights leaders and former presidents including Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter. Rep. John Lewis remembered for legacy of ...