On a hot summer day in Mississippi, June 21, 1964, a 20-year-old white, Jewish civil rights worker from New York named Andrew Goodman was murdered. He, along with two other activists, James Chaney, a 21-year-old Black man from Mississippi, and Michael Schwerner, a 24-year-old white, Jewish man also from New York, disappeared after investigating the burning of a church in Neshoba County. The three men were in Mississippi as part of the 'Freedom Summer' campaign, an effort to register African Amer
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