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28 cze 2021 · On June 21, 1964, civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner were ambushed and shot dead by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi
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.
21 cze 2024 · The men’s bodies were later found 14 feet underground at the Neshoba County farm on August 4. The men, whose bodies were laid head to toe, were identified by their fingerprints.
19 cze 2014 · In this undated photo released by the FBI Friday, June 17, 2005, the bodies of three civil rights workers are uncovered from an earthen dam southwest of Philadelphia, Miss.
30 cze 2021 · Photographs and case files documenting the investigation into the 1964 killings of three civil rights activists featured in the 1988 film “Mississippi Burning” are being made available to...
28 cze 2021 · Never-before-seen case files, photographs and other records documenting the investigation into the infamous slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi are now open to the public for the first time, 57 years after their deaths. The 1964 killings of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner in Neshoba ...
29 cze 2021 · The bodies of the missing activists were found buried in a partially constructed dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi on Aug. 4, 1964. The FBI website says, “The murders galvanized the nation...