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James Chaney
(1943-1964),
Andrew Goodman
(1943-1964)
and Michael Henry Schwerner
(1939-1964)
are beaten and shot dead
by
Ku Klux Klan members
in
Philadelphia,
Mississippi
on June 21, 1964
Civil rights leader Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
displays
pictures of three civil rights workers,
Michael Schwerner,
James Chaney,
and Andrew Goodman
who were
slain in Mississippi
the summer before
at a news conference
in New York on Dec. 4.,
1964.
He commended
the FBI for its arrests in Mississippi
in
connection with the slayings.
As the burgeoning civil rights movement
gathered force in the
1960s,
demonstrators were brutalized and killed,
sometimes at the
hands of law officers.
Many slayings remain unsolved.
But in some cases where local authorities
failed to go after
the attackers or all-white juries
refused to convict, the federal government moved in
with civil
rights charges.
Photograph: Associated Press
Boston Globe > Big Picture
Revisiting Martin Luther King's
1963 Dream speech
August 28, 2013
http://archive.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/08/
revisiting_martin_luther_kings.html
A “missing” poster
for Andrew Goodman,
James Earl Chaney
and Michael Henry
Schwerner.
In 2005, Mr. Killen was sentenced
to 60 years in prison for
their deaths.
Edgar Ray Killen, Convicted in ’64 Killings of Rights Workers,
Dies at 92
NYT
JAN. 12, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/
obituaries/edgar-ray-killen-convicted-in-64-killings-of-rights-worker-dies-at-92.html
Supporters of the Freedom Democratic Party
outside the Democratic National Convention
hold up signs bearing the likenesses of 3
slain civil rights workers
(L-R) Andrew Goodman, James Chaney & Michael
Schwerner.
Location: Atlantic City, NJ, US
Date taken: August 1964
Photographer: Ralph Crane
Life Images
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Olen Lavelle Burrage 1930-2013
Ku Klux Klan member
who
owned the Mississippi farm
where the bodies
of three
slain civil rights workers
were found in 1964
[ ... ]
The killing
of the
voter-registration volunteers
Michael Schwerner,
Andrew
Goodman
and James Chaney
on the night of June 21-22
in Philadelphia
shocked the nation,
leading to the passage
of
the Voting Rights Act
the next year.
Along with bombings
of black
churches
and other atrocities by the Klan,
it also helped cement
Mississippi’s image
as a haven of bigotry.
The case was the subject
of
several books
and was dramatized
in the
1988 movie
“Mississippi Burning.”
After local prosecutors
declined to bring murder charges
against anyone,
the federal government
indicted 18 men
on charges of conspiring
to
violate the civil rights of the trio
on a lonely rural road in
June 1964.
(The federal government
cannot bring murder charges,
except for murders
on
federal property.)
Mr. Burrage was one of eight
who were acquitted in 1967.
Seven were convicted,
and the jury deadlocked
on
the other three.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/us/
olen-burrage-dies-at-82-linked-to-killings-in-1964.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/us/mississippi-
ends-inquiry-into-1964-killing-of-3-civil-rights-workers.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/us/
marcus-d-gordon-judge-in-mississippi-burning-case-dies-at-84.html
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/06/19/
323343703/still-learning-from-pearl-harbor-of-the-civil-rights-movement
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/us/
olen-burrage-dies-at-82-linked-to-killings-in-1964.html
http://blogs.clarionledger.com/jmitchell/2013/03/17/
olen-burrage-dies-and-so-does-possibility-of-prosecuting-the-mississippi-burning-case/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/16/us/
cartha-d-deloach-no-3-in-fbi-is-dead-at-92.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/us/
22mayor.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/apr/11/usa.
suzannegoldenberg1
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/18/us/
mississippi-reveals-dark-secrets-of-a-racist-time.html
warning: graphic / distressing
The bodies of the three civil rights workers
were found buried in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Miss.,
in 1964.
Photograph: F.B.I., via Associated Press
Edgar Ray Killen, Convicted in ’64 Killings of Rights Workers,
Dies at 92
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
NYT
JAN. 12, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/
obituaries/edgar-ray-killen-convicted-in-64-killings-of-rights-worker-dies-at-92.html
Three civil rights workers
who were
registering voters
in Philadelphia
—
James Chaney,
who was black,
and Andrew Goodman
and
Michael Schwerner,
who
were white —
were murdered.
In a 1967 trial,
seven of 18 defendants
were convicted of
conspiracy.
Then in 2005,
Edgar Ray Killen,
an 80-year-old former
Klansman,
was convicted of manslaughter
for the killings and sentenced
to 60 years in prison.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/us/22mayor.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/
obituaries/edgar-ray-killen-convicted-in-64-killings-of-rights-worker-
dies-at-92.html
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482914440/officials-close-investigation-into-1964-mississippi-burning-killings
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/06/19/
323343703/still-learning-from-pearl-harbor-of-the-civil-rights-movement
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/us/
bill-eppridge-who-captured-powerful-60s-images-dies-at-75.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/us/
olen-burrage-dies-at-82-linked-to-killings-in-1964.html
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/us/22mayor.html
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/24/national/24killen.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/23/opinion/23thu4.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/22/national/22civil.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/21/national/21civil.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/21/national/21outsiders.html
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https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/05/
movies/l-mississippi-burning-blacks-and-the-box-office-566389.html
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movies/l-fbi-is-a-strange-hero-for-mississippi-burning-852689.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/08/
movies/film-view-mississippi-burning-generating-heat-light-taking-risks-illuminate.html
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movies/review-film-retracing-mississippi-s-agony-1964.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/04/
movies/film-fact-vs-fiction-in-mississippi.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/06/
archives/families-of-rights-workers-voice-grief-and-hope-father-of-andrew.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/05/
archives/graves-at-a-dam-discovery-is-made-in-new-earth-mound-in-mississippi.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/08/05/
archives/fbi-and-sailors-joined-wide-hunt-6week-search-for-3-men-went-on.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/07/12/
archives/mississippi-visit-ended-by-hoover-expected-break-on-missing-men.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/07/05/
archives/mystery-of-the-three-missing-civil-rights-workers-is-clouded-in.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/28/
archives/mississippi-drags-river-in-search-for-rights-aides-state-braces-for.html
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/
0621.html
2005
40 years on,
Mississippi Burning case
finally
reaches trial
Forty years
after three civil rights workers
were killed on a dirt road
in Mississippi
on a night that came
to
symbolise the racial hate
of the
American south,
an elderly leader
of the Ku
Klux Klan
appeared in court yesterday
to be formally charged
with
their murder.
In proceedings interrupted
by a bomb threat,
Edgar Ray Killen,
appeared
handcuffed
and in an orange
prison jump
suit
to plead not guilty
to three
counts of murder.
(...)
Killen was a preacher
and a local Klan leader
in Neshoba County,
Mississippi
when the killings
took place in 1964.
The FBI identified him
as
the ringleader of the gang
that ran the three
civil
rights workers
off of a lonely road,
killed them,
and hid their
corpses
in an earthen dam.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jan/08/usa.suzannegoldenberg
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/
obituaries/edgar-ray-killen-convicted-in-64-killings-of-rights-worker-
dies-at-92.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jan/08/
usa.suzannegoldenberg
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