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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]
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.
1,062 people were arrested (out-of-state volunteers and locals) 80 Freedom Summer workers were beaten; 37 churches were bombed or burned; 30 Black homes or businesses were bombed or burned; 4 civil rights workers were killed (one in a head-on collision) 4 people were critically wounded
The number of young people ages 12 to 17 killed by homicides nearly doubled between 2019 and 2022 from 717 deaths in 2018 to 1,409 in 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Born and raised in Pelham, New York, [1] [2] to a family of Jewish heritage, Schwerner attended Pelham Memorial High School.He was called Mickey by his friends. His mother, Anne Siegel (May 1, 1912 – November 29, 1996), was a science teacher at nearby New Rochelle High School, and his father, Nathan Schwerner (June 19, 1909 – March 6, 1991), was a businessman.
Delphi, Indiana, double murder suspect Richard Allen made up stories while in a psychotic state, and claimed that "Satan killed the girls," according to a neuropsychologist who testified for the ...
The names of the four girls killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing are engraved upon the Civil Rights Memorial. Erected in Montgomery, Alabama in 1989. [ 167 ] The Civil Rights Memorial is an inverted, conical granite fountain and is dedicated to 41 people who died in the struggle for the equal rights and integrated treatment of all ...
Two teenage girls, both 14, have been arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder for the killing of a 93-year-old Augusta woman over Labor Day weekend in 2023, Kansas Bureau of Investigation ...