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Freedom summer and the "Mississippi Burning" Murders #25
•The specific date(s) of each major event.
•June 21, 1964
•What city and state was the event sited.
•Neshoba County, Mississippi
•Who were the major players involved in the event.
• James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner
•List the facts specific to each event
•Civil rights organizations including the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) urged white students from the North to travel to Mississippi, where they helped register black voters and build schools for black children. It established 30 “Freedom Schools” in towns throughout Mississippi. The summer had barely begun, however, when three volunteers–Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, both white New Yorkers, and James Chaney, a black Mississippian–disappeared on their way back from investigating the burning of an African-American church by the Ku Klux Klan.
Freedom summer and the "Mississippi Burning" Murders #25
•The specific date(s) of each major event.
•June 21, 1964
•What city and state was the event sited.
•Neshoba County, Mississippi
•Who were the major players involved in the event.
• James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner
•List the facts specific to each event
•Civil rights organizations including the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) urged white students from the North to travel to Mississippi, where they helped register black voters and build schools for black children. It established 30 “Freedom Schools” in towns throughout Mississippi. The summer had barely begun, however, when three volunteers–Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, both white New Yorkers, and James Chaney, a black Mississippian–disappeared on their way back from investigating the burning of an African-American church by the Ku Klux Klan.