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  • Thumbnail for Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
    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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    County, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Schwerner and two co-workers, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, were killed in response to their civil...
    16 KB (1,704 words) - 08:06, 13 May 2024
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    Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner from New York City. James Chaney was born the eldest son of Fannie Lee and Ben Chaney, Sr. His brother Ben was nine...
    18 KB (1,810 words) - 08:05, 13 May 2024
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    Andrew Goodman (activist) (category Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner)
    Ku Klux Klan in 1964. Goodman and two fellow activists, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, were volunteers for the Freedom Summer campaign that sought...
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  • Mississippi Burning (category Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner)
    Gerolmo that is loosely based on the 1964 murder investigation of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Mississippi. It stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as two...
    85 KB (7,870 words) - 08:01, 13 May 2024
  • beaten. Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, a black man, and Andrew Goodman, who was white (as were the Schwerners) drove the Schwerner family station wagon...
    11 KB (1,323 words) - 05:19, 17 February 2024
  • Murder in Mississippi (film) (category Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner)
    last weeks of civil rights activists Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, and the events leading up to their disappearance and...
    4 KB (312 words) - 08:43, 14 May 2024
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    Kelso, journalist Edgar Ray Killen, organized the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner Florence Mars, civil rights activist Phillip Martin, Chief of...
    30 KB (2,426 words) - 00:48, 26 March 2024
  • We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi is a 1989 non-fiction book by Seth Cagin...
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  • Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (category Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner)
    dramatizes the events following the 1964 abduction and murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Mississippi. In this, it is similar in theme to the 1988...
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  • Murder in Mississippi (painting) (category Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner)
    depicts the 1964 murders of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, and was intended to illustrate an article written on...
    6 KB (696 words) - 08:04, 13 May 2024
  • the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. Within the first month of the Freedom Summer campaign, civil rights activists, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman...
    7 KB (676 words) - 00:35, 24 April 2024
  • men, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner; all three were trying to register African Americans to vote in the South. Schwerner and Chaney were on the...
    48 KB (5,148 words) - 19:06, 19 May 2024
  • instigating and planning the 1964 murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner by members of his Klan chapter near Philadelphia, Mississippi...
    18 KB (2,052 words) - 01:47, 23 April 2024
  • orchestrated the murder of James Chaney was brought to trial. This trial, 41 years after the murders of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman, was...
    8 KB (1,009 words) - 02:49, 5 August 2023
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    Equality civil rights activists Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman. Roberts also shot the third activist, James Chaney, but it is debated by some that it...
    13 KB (1,353 words) - 01:48, 23 April 2024
  • was most famous for his role in investigating the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in 1964. Proctor had been stationed by the FBI in Meridian,...
    2 KB (197 words) - 18:42, 5 April 2022
  • Michael Schwerner and wife Rita arrived in Meridian, Mississippi in spring to prepare for the new volunteers. Schwerner befriended James Chaney, a local...
    32 KB (4,883 words) - 20:16, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
    murdered three civil rights workers: Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner (their murder was later depicted in the 1988 film Mississippi...
    11 KB (1,386 words) - 02:42, 19 March 2024
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    and lieutenant governor in 1983 James Chaney, one of the victims in the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in 1964 Alvin Childress, actor, played...
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