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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
warning: graphic / distressing
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
Photograph: 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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/us/
olen-burrage-dies-at-82-linked-to-killings-in-1964.html
https://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/
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/16/
us/cartha-d-deloach-no-3-in-fbi-is-dead-at-92.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/us/
22mayor.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/apr/11/usa.
suzannegoldenberg1
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/18/
us/mississippi-reveals-dark-secrets-of-a-racist-time.html
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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/us/22mayor.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Edgar_Ray_Killen
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/
obituaries/edgar-ray-killen-convicted-in-64-killings-of-rights-worker-
dies-at-92.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/21/
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
http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/movies/13neshoba.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/us/24rights.html
http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/movies/13neshoba.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/us/22mayor.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/apr/11/usa.suzannegoldenberg1
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/15/us/15killen.html
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
http://www.nytimes.com/images/promos/magazine/20050306lelyveld-magazine.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/05/
movies/l-mississippi-burning-blacks-and-the-box-office-566389.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/13/
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
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/09/
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.
https://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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