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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]
Michael Henry Schwerner (November 6, 1939 – June 21, 1964) ... The jury found him guilty of three counts of manslaughter on June 21, 2005. He was the only man ...
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 abductions and murders of three activists in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in June 1964, during the Civil Rights Movement.
Rita Schwerner Bender (née Levant; born 1942) is an American civil rights activist and lawyer. She and her first husband, Michael Schwerner, participated in the Freedom Summer of 1964, where Michael was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. As his young widow, she drew national attention for her commentary on racial prejudice in the United States ...
Investigators found the body of a 38-year-old man, the day after his killer pleaded guilty to his murder. Detectives say they have discovered Thursday morning what is believed to be Oscar Munos ...
Police found the 84-year-old dead during a welfare check, Connecticut officials say. Husband’s body found in basement months after death, officials say. Wife pleads guilty
A Yavapai County, Arizona jury found the 61 year-old man guilty of “29 felony counts of concealing or abandoning a dead body,” officials said.
The murders of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman outside of Philadelphia, Mississippi, being pivotal to the events of the Freedom Summer and the Civil Rights Movement as a whole, is referred to in Alice Walker’s Meridian, which was published in 1976. It is referred to as being a deciding factor for not just the SNICK ...