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August 4 1964 The Grim 44 Days In the swamps of Mississippi federal search teams discovered body after bodynearly a dozen murdered African Americans. Michael Mickey Schwerner and James Chaney worked for the Congress of Racial Equality CORE in nearby Meridian.

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Their bodies were buried in an earthen dam on.

James chaney andrew goodman michael schwerner. Forty-five years ago today the bodies of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman Michael Mickey Schwerner and James Chaney were discovered buried in. And as the three men James Chaney Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner waited resigned to pay the speeding fine and eager to get out of town a crew comprising KKK members was out in the woods digging graves with a Caterpillar land excavator. On June 20 Schwerner and two fellow volunteersJames Chaney and Andrew Goodmanheaded south to investigate the fire.

The Klan missed its target but the trap was set. On Sunday morning June 21 1964 the three civil rights volunteers left Meridian to visit with the victims of the Klan church attack near Philadelphia. Andrew Goodman was one of the hundreds of college students from across the country.

They arrived in Meridian by June 20 1964. Michael Henry Schwerner James Earl Chaney and Andrew Goodman Civil rights workers Michael Henry Schwerner James Earl Chaney and Andrew Goodman were killed by a mob of Klansmen in Neshoba County Mississippi on June 21 1964. Price while operating under color of law was also in the Ku Klux Klan.

The murders of Michael Schwerner 24 James Chaney 21 and Andrew Goodman 20 were part of a plot hatched by the Lauderdale County unit of the Ku Klux Klan and carried out with members of the Neshoba County unit. Andrew Goodman a twenty-year-old college student and new volunteer from New York joined Schwerner and Chaney in leaving Ohio for Mississippi. In the late hours of the night Andrew Goodman James Chaney and Michael Schwerner lost their lives at hands of Neshoba County Sherrif Cecil Price and the Ku Klux Klan.

James Chaney was severely beaten then shot by the KKK members. On June 21 1964 Michael Schwerner James Chaney and Andrew Goodman were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Neshoba County Mississippi. A documentary by Micki Dickoff and Tony Pagano looks at the deaths of James Chaney Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in 1964 and their aftermath.

Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were both shot and killed by members of the KKK. The trio was working with the Freedom Summer Project to register African Americans to vote. The next afternoon they.