Social Movements & Civil Rights

Murder of Civil Rights Workers in Mississippi

Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner were civil rights activists who were murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi. They had been working to register Black voters during the Freedom Summer campaign. Their disappearance sparked national outrage and highlighted the severe risks faced by civil rights workers at the hands of white supremacist groups, particularly the Ku Klux Klan, in the Deep South.

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