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American civil rights and voting rights activist Tuskegee, Alabama United States: Marvin Segrest Vernon Dahmer: 1966: 10 January American civil rights and voting rights activist Hattiesburg, Mississippi United States: Ku Klux Klan: Osende Afana: 1966: 15 March Cameroonian economist Ndélélé Cameroon: Cameroonian Armed Forces: Chit Phumisak ...
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]
Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner (13 P) Pages in category "Assassinated American civil rights activists" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
Viola Fauver Liuzzo (née Gregg; April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965) was an American civil rights activist in Detroit, Michigan.She was known for going to Alabama in March 1965 to support the Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights.
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. The others were Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner from New York City.
Michael Henry Schwerner (November 6, 1939 – June 21, 1964) was an American civil rights activist.He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) field workers murdered in rural Neshoba County, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Goodman was Jewish, like fellow civil rights activist Michael Schwerner, alongside whom Goodman would be murdered. [3] Goodman's neighborhood was a racially-mixed community of white, black, and Hispanic families. [4] The Goodman family was involved in intellectual and socially progressive activism and were devoted to social justice. His mother ...
Edgar Ray Killen (January 10, 1925 – January 11, 2018) was an American Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964.