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"Untold Story of the Mississippi Murders", by William Bradford Huie, Saturday Evening Post September 5, 1964, No. 30, pp 11–15; We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi, by Seth Cagin and Philip Dray. Bantam Books, 1988. ISBN 0-553-35252-0
United States v. Cecil Price, et al., also known as the Mississippi Burning trial or Mississippi Burning case, was a criminal trial where the United States charged a group of 18 men with conspiring in a Ku Klux Klan plot to murder three young civil rights workers (Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman) in Philadelphia, Mississippi on June 21, 1964 during Freedom Summer.
Philadelphia in June 1964 was the scene of the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, a 21-year-old black man from Meridian, Mississippi; Andrew Goodman, a 20-year-old Jewish anthropology student from New York City; and Michael Schwerner, a 24-year-old Jewish CORE organizer and former social worker, also from New York. Their deaths ...
Even the cafeteria workers at the Shriners Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia were in tears Saturday after learning that a young pediatric patient who was headed home after a grueling four ...
Watch again the scene of from the site of the Philadelphia plane crash on Saturday (1 February), as six people, including a child, died after air ambulance crashed into homes. A mid-size air ...
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.
On the afternoon of June 21, 1964, Price stopped a blue Ford station wagon on Mississippi Highway 19 for allegedly speeding inside the Philadelphia city limits. [5] Inside the station wagon were three civil rights workers James Chaney, who was driving, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner. Price arrested the three workers, allegedly on ...
The 124-day 2024 Mississippi legislative session is finally over. The last thing lawmakers did before gaveling out before 9:30 Saturday morning was to pass a nearly $7.9 billion budget Friday ...