Michael (Mickey) Schwerner and James Chaney worked for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in nearby Meridian; Andrew Goodman was one of the hundreds of college students from across the country ...
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60 years on from Mississippi Burning - three martyred civil rights workers rememberedThat changed on June 21, 1964, when James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner went missing in the southern town. After digging for hours on a steamy August morning, investigators finally ...
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FBI Files Reveal Last Moments in Lives of 3 Civil Rights Workers Murdered in 'Mississippi Burning' CaseThe two White men — Michael Henry Schwerner, 24, and Andrew Goodman, 20 — were from New York City. When local police stopped the men – civil rights activists who had just visited the charred ...
Murdered activists Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner would become symbols of Jewish involvement in the civil rights struggle. But in 1964, they barely caught JTA’s attention. Hamas ...
Folk singer Pete Seeger was performing for a Meridian, Mississippi church congregation when he got word that the bodies of missing civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James ...
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