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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.
21 cze 2024 · A jury convicted him of three counts of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to 60 years behind bars, The New York Times reported. He died in prison. No one was ever convicted of murder. On the...
28 cze 2021 · The three Freedom Summer workers, all in their 20s, had been investigating the burning of a black church near Philadelphia, Mississippi when they disappeared in June of 1964.
21 cze 2022 · The murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964 turned into one of Bureau’s biggest investigations of the era.
23 cze 2016 · Fifty-two years after three civil rights workers were killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan, authorities have officially closed the “Mississippi Burning” case.
7 kwi 2022 · The killing of three civil-rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964 changed America. But today, if you want to know what happened here, you need to know who to ask.
15 cze 1989 · Times Staff Writer. The killings on a dark Mississippi highway took less than five minutes. Now, 25 years later, the nation is about to relive them. On a hot and sticky night in 1964, a gang of...
