Forty-eight years ago, 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 Neshoba County, Mississippi. They had been working to register black voters in Mississippi during Freedom Summer and had […]
Forty-eight years ago, 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 Neshoba County, Mississippi. They had been working to register black voters in Mississippi during Freedom Summer and had […]