Murders of White, Goodman, and Schrader

When

21 Jun 1964

Kind

Murder

Killed

3

Coordinates

32.75° N, 89.12° W

Description

June 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, U.S.

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

1964 murders of activists in Mississippi, US

On June 21, 1964, three civil rights movement activists, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, were murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, by local members of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Earlier the same day they were arrested for speeding, and after being released were followed by local law enforcement and others affiliated with the authorities, all of whom were associated with the Klan.

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• Wikidata: shootings and murdersWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Civil Rights Movement: Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner – Three Congress of Racial Equality workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Cerca del poblado Filadelfia (Misisipi), tres trabajadores del Congreso de Igualdad Racial, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman y James Chaney”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page