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28 giu 2021 · The killings of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman in Neshoba County 57 years ago sparked a wave of national grief and outrage, leading to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman go to investigate the burning of a church in Neshoba County, Mississippi. While driving back to Meridian, Mississippi, they were arrested for traffic violations and jailed. After being released from jail at 10 p.m., they disappeared. June 22, 1964
25 nov 2014 · Michael Schwerner '61 earns posthumous Medal of Freedom. Fifty years after civil rights workers James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael “Mickey” Schwerner ’61 were slain in Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan, President Barack Obama presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to their families Nov. 24 at the White House.
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Rita Schwerner Bender ( née Levant; born 1942) is an American civil rights activist and lawyer. She and her first husband, Michael Schwerner, participated in the Freedom Summer of 1964, where Michael was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. As his young widow, she drew national attention for her commentary on racial prejudice in the United States ...
26 gen 2021 · On June 21, 1964, three young civil rights workers—a 21-year-old black Mississippian, James Chaney, and two white New Yorkers, Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 24—were murdered near Philadelphia, in Nashoba County, Mississippi. They had been working to register black voters in Mississippi during Freedom Summer and had ...
27 giu 2021 · The 1964 killings of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in Neshoba County sparked national outrage and helped spur passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
On June 21, 1964, three young civil rights workers were murdered in Neshoba County. The trio had come here to investigate the burning of the Mt. Zion United Methodist Church in the Longdale Community off Highway 16 East. The night the church was burned, parishioners were beaten, some severely. The murders of Michael Schwerner, 24, James Chaney ...
