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On June 21, 1964, three Civil Rights Movement activists, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by local members of the Ku Klux Klan.They had been arrested earlier in the day for speeding, and after being released were followed by local law enforcement & others, all affiliated with the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. [1]
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After the lynching the babies were seen squirming in their mothers bellies. [378] Clark, Major: 20 Howze, Alma: 16 Howze, Maggie: 20 Ashley, Bob: African American: Dublin: Laurens: Georgia: 1919: Hoped to shoot someone else: A group of men thought another man might be inside Ashley's house, so they shot into the house, mortally wounding Ashley ...
A newspaper photo of the courtroom during the 1931 murder trial of Herbert Johnson. Seated, from left, are Deputy Sheriff Jesse Millspaw, defendant Herbert Johnson and Johnson's lawyer, Francis L ...
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Indiana authorities are investigating a report by a Black man who said he was pinned to a tree by a group of white men, an attack he likened to an “attempted lynching.”
Edgar Ray Killen (January 10, 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.
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 ...