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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, were the abduction and murder of three activists in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in June 1964, during the Civil Rights Movement.
Murder in Mississippi is a 1990 television film which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney,...
Murder in Mississippi is a 1990 American television film which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, and the events leading up to their disappearance and subsequent murder during Freedom Summer in 1964.
Feb 5, 1990 · Murder in Mississippi: Directed by Roger Young. With Tom Hulce, Jennifer Grey, Blair Underwood, CCH Pounder. In 1964, members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered three Civil Rights workers who had traveled to the South to encourage African-American voter registration.
Jun 28, 2021 · The three Freedom Summer workers, all in their 20s, had been investigating the burning of a black church near Philadelphia, Mississippi when they disappeared in June of 1964.
Schwerner had come to Mississippi to organize local boycotts and aid in voter registration in a state that at the time had only registered 6.7% of eligible Black voters, per the U.S. Commission on ...
On June 21, 1964, three young men disappeared near the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi.
