A History of Political Prisoners
Day
Month
←
August
→
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
04
AUG
Share this
Help confront our history to overcome injustice.
On this day August 04, 1964

Bodies of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner recovered in Mississippi

The bodies of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were recovered from an earthen dam in Neshoba County, Mississippi, six weeks after their abduction and murder by Klansmen and county deputies during Freedom Summer.

← August 3 August 7 →