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2026-06-21

In 1964: three civil rights workers vanish in Mississippi

On June 21, 1964, civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were abducted and murdered by Klansmen in Neshoba County, Mississippi; one organizer was finally convicted 41 years later.

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