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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...
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    James Chaney (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
    American civil rights activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) civil rights workers killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members...
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  • agents investigating the disappearance of three civil rights workers in fictional Jessup County, Mississippi, who are met with hostility by the town's residents...
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    an American civil rights activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of...
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  • Murder in Mississippi is a 1990 television film which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and...
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    Cecil Price (category American police officers convicted of depriving others of their civil rights)
    wagon were three civil rights workers James Chaney, who was driving, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner. Price arrested the three workers, allegedly on...
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    Michael Schwerner (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
    American civil rights activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) field workers killed in rural Neshoba County, Mississippi, by members...
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    Olen Lovell Burrage (category People from Philadelphia, Mississippi)
    bulldozers. Sometime before the murders, Burrage remarked about the "invasion" of Civil Rights workers coming to Mississippi. Burrage allegedly proclaimed...
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    percent of the civil rights attorneys in the South during the 1960s were Jews, as well as over 50 percent of the Whites who went to Mississippi in 1964 to...
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    Edgar Ray Killen (category People involved with the civil rights movement)
    Church bombing, and the murder of Vernon Dahmer. Mitchell assembled new evidence regarding the murders of the three civil rights workers. He also located new...
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  • fighting desegregation and controlling civil rights activism. It was overseen by the Governor of Mississippi. The stated objective of the commission...
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    National Civil Rights Museum is a complex of museums and historic buildings in Memphis, Tennessee; its exhibits trace the history of the civil rights movement...
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    dangers endured by black civil rights workers. The progression of events throughout the South increased media attention to Mississippi. The deaths of affluent...
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    of Tougaloo College and Aaron Henry, from Clarksdale, Mississippi. Local civil rights workers and volunteers, along with students from northern and western...
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    The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum is a museum in Jackson, Mississippi located at 222 North St. #2205. Its mission is to document, exhibit the history...
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    Medgar Evers (category Assassinated American civil rights activists)
    1925 – June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist and the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. He was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith...
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  • 21 – Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, three civil rights workers disappear from Philadelphia, Mississippi, later to be found murdered and buried...
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  • Summer in Mississippi (1964), it was about the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, the three civil rights workers killed by...
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  • S. Intense scrutiny was brought to bear on the lack of black civil rights in Mississippi, with newspapers around the U.S. critical of the state. Although...
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  • American political party that existed in the state of Mississippi from 1964 to 1968, during the Civil Rights Movement. Created as the partisan political branch...
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  • desegregation crisis. Murder in Mississippi (1965), a painting and an important sketch by Norman Rockwell depicting the 1964 murders of civil rights activists James...
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  • George W. Lee (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
    vote. Biography portal Civil rights movement portal Mississippi portal Lamar Smith (activist) Emmett Till List of unsolved murders David T. Beito and Linda...
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    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...
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    Herman Tucker (category Murder in Mississippi)
    linked to the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner who were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in June 1964. The bodies of the civil rights workers were found...
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    institutions, including the Mississippi Children's Museum, Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, Mississippi Museum of Art, Old...
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  • Lamar Smith (activist) (category Assassinated American civil rights activists)
    murder was one of several racially motivated attacks in Mississippi in 1955. The other incidents included the murder of George W. Lee, a civil rights...
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    Jimmy Snowden (category People convicted of depriving others of their civil rights)
    Mobile Homes in Meridian, Mississippi to meet Edgar Ray Killen, who had instructed them about the three civil rights workers in jail in Philadelphia and...
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    Alton Wayne Roberts (category People convicted of depriving others of their civil rights)
    the 1964 Freedom Summer murders. He was the one who fatally shot two of the victims, Congress of Racial Equality civil rights activists Michael Schwerner...
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    1900s. In June 1964, civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were chased down, tortured, and murdered by members of the...
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  • Film Awards. Director Beryl Fox traveled to Mississippi after the bodies of the three civil rights workers working for the Congress of Racial Equality...
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