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John Autry @[email protected] · 2025-08-04 · 16:10 UTC

August 4, 1964 - FBI agents discovered the bodies of three missing civil rights workers buried deep in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi. James Chaney was a local African-American man who had joined the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner had traveled from New York to heavily segregated Mississippi that year to help register voters with the support of CORE.

At the time, fewer than 10% of eligible black Mississippians were registered to vote.

The three young men and many others were part of Freedom Summer, a massive voter registration and education project organized by the Council of Federated organizations (COFO), an umbrella group of major civil rights organizations.

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John Autry @[email protected] · 2025-06-21 · 15:30 UTC

June 21, 1964 - James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, three young Freedom Summer workers, disappeared in Philadelphia, Mississippi, while registering African Americans to vote. Their bodies were found six weeks later, having been shot and then buried in an earthen dam.

Eight members of the Ku Klux Klan eventually went to prison on federal conspiracy charges related to the disappearance; none served more than six years.

Schwerner and Goodman, both white New Yorkers, had traveled to heavily segregated Mississippi to help organize civil rights efforts on behalf of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Chaney was a local African-American man who had joined CORE in 1963.

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jackhutton 🇺🇸 @[email protected] · 2024-06-23 · 15:29 UTC

We all need to know this American History. [Gifted w. my subscription to The Washington Post]: In 1964, the Klan killed three young activists and shocked the nation

A Mississippi town still grapples with that violent civil rights history

https://wapo.st/45EiFrN

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