On this day in 1964

On this day in 1964 by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today June 21, 2024 JUNE 21, 1964 A group of more than 20 Klansmen killed three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, south of Philadelphia, Mississippi.  The three men had come as a part of Freedom Summer to register Black voters and work in the civil rights movement.

  Hundreds of FBI agents came to investigate the case, which the agency called “Mississippi Burning,” or MIBURN for short. Forty-four days later, agents found their bodies. In a 1967 federal trial, seven men were convicted on conspiracy charges with none serving more than six years in prison. Nobody was ever tried for murder until 2005 when Edgar Ray Killen was convicted of orchestrating the trio’s slayings. The conviction took place on the 41st anniversary of the killings.

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