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History > 20th century > USA > Civil rights
James Chaney (1943-1964), Andrew Goodman (1943-1964) and Michael Henry Schwerner (1939-1964) are beaten and shot dead by Ku Klux Klan members 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://www.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/
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 http://images.google.com/hosted/life/ea0dc7e6a01d769c.html
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
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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
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.
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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, Neshoba County on June 21, 1964
The bodies of the three civil rights workers were found buried in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Miss., in 1964.
Credit 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/
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, 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
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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.
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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
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