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Mississippi civil rights workers' murders

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The site was marked with a Mississippi historical marker but the marker was vandalized in 2013 and no longer exists.  The site of the murders (and the former marker) is located near hear.

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Mississippi civil rights workers' murders

Three American civil rights' workers, James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, were shot at close range on the night of June 21–22, 1964 by members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County's Sheriff Office and the Philadelphia Police Department located in Philadelphia, Mississippi. The three had been working on the "Freedom Summer" campaign, attempting to register African Americans to vote.

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