At One Minute Past Midnight, On June 21, 1964, Three Civil Rights Volunteers Were Murdered Near Philadelphia, Mississippi,In Neshoba County,
On 4th August, 1964, FBI Agents Found The Bodies Of The Three Young Men In An Earthen Dam, At Old JollyFarm. They Had Been Buried For 44 Days.
James Chaney (The Black Victim), Along With Andrew Goodman And Michael Schwerner Was Involved With TheCongress On Racial Equality's (CORE)Freedom Summer Campaign To Register Black Voters.
On The 21st Of June, 1964, The Three Activists Went To Longdale.Mississippi To Visit Mt. Zion Methodist Church, A Building That Had BeenFire-Bombed By The Ku Klux Klan Because It Was Going To Be Used As AFreedom School.
On The Way Back To TheCOREOffice In Meridian, MS, The Three MenWere Arrested By Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price. Later That Evening TheyWere Released From The Neshoba Jail Only To Be Stopped Again On A RuralRoad Where A White Mob Shot Them Dead And Buried Them In An Earthen dam. James Chaney Had Every Bone In His Body Crushed In The Murder.
Seven Klansman, Including Price, Were Arrested And Tried For The BrutalKillings. However, An All-white Jury Found Them All Not Guilty. Sometime Later, The Federal Government Charged The Murderers With ViolatingThe Civil Rights Of Chaney, Goodman And Schwerner, This Time TheKlansman Were Convicted And Served Sentences Ranging From Two To Ten Years. An Eighth Person Was Indicted In 2005.
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