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The civil-rights workers' burnt-out car was found parked near a swamp three days after their disappearance. [2] [3] An extensive search of the area was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), local and state authorities, and 400 U.S. Navy sailors. [4] Their bodies were not discovered until seven weeks later, when the team ...
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 murdered 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.
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 murdered in rural Neshoba County, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Neshoba County Jail. White civil rights workers from New York Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, along with James Chaney, a Black civil rights activist from Meridian, were arrested in Neshoba ...
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.
Civil rights activist Dorie Ann Ladner has died at age 81. ... Dorie Ladner was one of the first workers to go to Natchez, Mississippi in 1967, to help people register to vote, her sister said. ...
United States v. Cecil Price, et al., also known as the Mississippi Burning trial or Mississippi Burning case, was a criminal trial where the United States charged a group of 18 men with conspiring in a Ku Klux Klan plot to murder three young civil rights workers (Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman) in Philadelphia, Mississippi on June 21, 1964 during Freedom Summer.
Dorie Ladner was one of the first workers to go to Natchez, Mississippi in 1964, to help people register to vote, her sister said. ... She also knew other civil rights luminaries such as NAACP ...