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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.
Jan 30, 2024 · Mississippi Burning is a popular crime thriller film from 1988, loosely based on the true story of three civil rights activists who were murdered in Mississippi in 1964.
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- Gene Hackman
- Alan Parker
Nov 9, 2019 · After they were found lynched in the rural deep South, the hunt began to find their killers. With little evidence other than the bullets left inside the three innocent workers, the FBI had...
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Jan 13, 2018 · The Mississippi Burning murders (also known as the Freedom Summer murders) involved three civil-rights activists—James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner—who were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in June 1964.
Apr 16, 2024 · "The FBI investigates the nationally known case of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia Mississippi amid the tension of the civil r...
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Jun 21, 2021 · The KKK’s murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner inspired national outrage and support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The plot of Alan Parker’s 1988 film, Mississippi Burning, is drawn from the 1964 disappearance of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were white northerners, and James Chaney, a black native of Meridian, Mississippi. The three activists were working to register African American voters in Meridian as part of the Freedom Summer […]
