Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner – Wikipedia

The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers’ murders or the Mississippi Burning murders, involved three activists who were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi in June 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement.The victims were James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi, and Andrew Goodman and Michael …

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