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In 2004, on the 40th anniversary of the murders, a multi-ethnic group of citizens in Philadelphia, Mississippi, issued a call for justice. More than 1,500 people, including civil rights leaders and Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour , joined them to support having the case re-opened.
Olen Lavelle Burrage (March 16, 1930 – March 15, 2013) was a Mississippi farmer and businessman who was tried and acquitted of the June 1964 murders of three civil rights workers. Burrage owned the farm where the bodies of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were found buried in an earthen dam.
Philadelphia in June 1964 was the scene of the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, a 21-year-old black man from Meridian, Mississippi; Andrew Goodman, a 20-year-old Jewish anthropology student from New York City; and Michael Schwerner, a 24-year-old Jewish CORE organizer and former social worker, also from New York. Their deaths ...
The murders of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman outside of Philadelphia, Mississippi, being pivotal to the events of the Freedom Summer and the Civil Rights Movement as a whole, is referred to in Alice Walker’s Meridian, which was published in 1976. It is referred to as being a deciding factor for not just the SNICK ...
Andrew Goodman (November 23, 1943 – June 21, 1964) was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan in 1964.
A Mississippi woman who was murdered by notorious serial killer Samuel Little was identified earlier this month. ... He confessed to 93 murders before his death, which would make him the deadliest ...
Edgar Ray Killen was born on January 10, 1925, in Philadelphia, Mississippi, as the oldest of eight children [6] to Lonie Ray Killen (1901–1992) and Jetta Killen (née Hitt; 1903–1983). [7] Killen was a sawmill operator and a part-time Baptist minister. [ 8 ]
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said the two men should not be approached and anyone who sees them should call 911 or the sheriff's office. Collins was being held for charges out of Copiah ...