WHY WE MUST VOTE. 50 years ago on June 21, 1964, James Chaney, - TopicsExpress



          

WHY WE MUST VOTE. 50 years ago on June 21, 1964, James Chaney, Andy Goodman and Michael Schwerner went missing after they visited a church in Neshoba County, Mississippi, which the Ku Klux Klan had bombed because it was going to be used as a Freedom School. The murders in Mississippi outraged the nation and propelled the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. These three were young civil rights workers who traveled to Mississippi for Freedom Summer, the historic campaign to register African-American voters. Forty-four days after the trio’s disappearance, FBI agents found their bodies buried in an earthen dam. During the six-week search, the bodies of nine Black men were also dredged out of local swamps.
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 18:32:05 +0000

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