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After Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner's release from the Neshoba County jail shortly after 10 p.m. on June 21, [21] they were followed almost immediately by Deputy Sheriff Price in his 1957 white Chevrolet sedan patrol car. [22] Soon afterward, the civil rights workers left the city limits located along Hospital Road and headed south on Highway 19.
The nation did not know for certain that Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner were murdered until 44 days later, when the FBI found their bodies buried in an earthen dam that had been under construction ...
We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi is a 1989 non-fiction book by Seth Cagin and Philip Dray. It concerns the murders of Michael Schwerner , Andrew Goodman , and James Chaney .
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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.
The Chaney-Goodman-Schwerner Clock Tower of Rosenthal Library, is named in honor of James, Andrew, and Mickey on the CUNY Queens College Campus in New York City. The song "He Was My Brother", released in 1964 by Simon & Garfunkel , is a dedication to Goodman along with two other civil rights activists.
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.
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