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Mississippi Freedom Summer workers go missing

Mississippi Freedom Summer workers go missing

Civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner disappeared in Neshoba County, Mississippi after being released from a sheriff's lockup. Their bodies were found six weeks later in an earthen dam. The Klan and county deputies had killed them.