Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman
On this date in 1964, three Civil Rights workers disappeared near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Two of them were white, and one was Black. James Chaney, a Black Mississippian, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, two Jewish New Yorkers, were in Neshoba County to look into the burning of a black church and help register black voters during 'Freedom Summer.'
The three were stopped for speeding, jailed briefly, and then released, after which they were followed out of town by a gang of Ku Klux Klansmen, intercepted, and murdered.
