August 4, 1964 - FBI agents discovered the bodies of three missing civil rights workers buried deep in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi. James Chaney was a local African-American man who had joined the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner had traveled from New York to heavily segregated Mississippi that year to help register voters with the support of CORE.

At the time, fewer than 10% of eligible black Mississippians were registered to vote.

The three young men and many others were part of Freedom Summer, a massive voter registration and education project organized by the Council of Federated organizations (COFO), an umbrella group of major civil rights organizations.

#JamesChaney #AndrewGoodman #MichaelSchwerner

June 21, 1964 - James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, three young Freedom Summer workers, disappeared in Philadelphia, Mississippi, while registering African Americans to vote. Their bodies were found six weeks later, having been shot and then buried in an earthen dam.

Eight members of the Ku Klux Klan eventually went to prison on federal conspiracy charges related to the disappearance; none served more than six years.

Schwerner and Goodman, both white New Yorkers, had traveled to heavily segregated Mississippi to help organize civil rights efforts on behalf of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Chaney was a local African-American man who had joined CORE in 1963.

#ChaneyGoodmanSchwerner #AndrewGoodman #JamesChaney #MichaelSchwerner

Mississippi Goddamn: You Were Definitely Involved In This

60 years

"Honoring "a story of absolute moral and physical courage," we mark the 60th anniversary of the murder of young civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner by white supremacists for the crime of working to register black voters, end apartheid in the Jim Crow South, and make a better, fairer world."

#mississippi #jameschaney #AndrewGoodman and #MichaelSchwerner

https://www.commondreams.org/mississippi-goddamn-you-were-definitely-involved-in-this

We all need to know this American History. [Gifted w. my subscription to The Washington Post]: In 1964, the Klan killed three young activists and shocked the nation

A Mississippi town still grapples with that violent civil rights history

https://wapo.st/45EiFrN

#freedomSummer #Mississippi #MickeySchwerner #JamesChaney #AndrewGoodman

Song of the day May 30 2024

In remembrance of the birth of James E. Chaney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Chaney

Jim Crow Museum - The June 21 1964 Murders of Michael Henry Schwerner, James Earl Chaney and Andrew Goodman

https://youtu.be/cDqf0B2_j1A?si=stD03zpqmmJ6UEid

@SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #May30 #JamesChaney #MichaelSchwemer #AndrewGoodman #JimCrowMuseum #Racism #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #FreedomSummer #KuKluxKlan #LyndonJohnson #LBJ #MississippiBurning #1960s

Song of the day May 30 2024

In remembrance of the birth of James E. Chaney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Chaney

Jim Crow Museum - The June 21 1964 Murders of Michael Henry Schwerner, James Earl Chaney and Andrew Goodman

https://youtu.be/cDqf0B2_j1A?si=stD03zpqmmJ6UEid

@SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #May30 #JamesChaney #MichaelSchwemer #AndrewGoodman #JimCrowMuseum #Racism #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #FreedomSummer #KuKluxKlan #LyndonJohnson #LBJ #MississippiBurning #1960s