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  2. Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. United States v. Price - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Cecil Price - Wikipedia

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    Cecil Ray Price (April 15, 1938 – May 6, 2001) was an American police officer and white supremacist.He was a participant in the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in 1964.

  5. Michael Schwerner - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. James Chaney - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Edgar Ray Killen, convicted in 'Mississippi Burning' killings ...

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    The Klansman was convicted more than 40 years after he plotted the 1964 slayings of three civil rights activists in the "Mississippi Burning" case.

  8. Category : Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner

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  9. Mississippi Burning - Wikipedia

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    Rainey, who was the county sheriff at the time of the 1964 murders, alleged that the filmmakers of Mississippi Burning portrayed him in an unfavorable light with the fictional character of Sheriff Ray Stuckey (Gailard Sartain). "Everybody all over the South knows the one they have playing the sheriff in that movie is referring to me," he stated.