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25 Nov 2014, 12:13 pm by sgottlieb
Yesterday, President Obama posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, a Black Mississippian and two white New Yorkers, murdered fifty years ago, working to register Blacks to vote in Mississippi. [read post]
30 Apr 2007, 7:21 pm
On April 12, the Mississippi Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Edgar Ray Killen for the 1964 murders of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman. [read post]
21 Jun 2021, 12:35 pm by Steve Lash
Welcome to Monday, the 57th anniversary of the slayings of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in Mississippi. [read post]
21 Jun 2014, 1:39 am by rhapsodyinbooks
They were taken to an isolated spot where James Chaney was severely beaten and possibly mutilated, and all three were shot to death. [read post]
26 Jan 2007, 11:00 am
Andrew Goodman,  James Chaney,  and Michael Schwerner. [read post]
22 May 2009, 2:06 pm
 The election of Pentecostal Minister James A Young on Tuesday means that James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner did not die in vain. [read post]
13 Aug 2013, 8:24 am by Tomiko Brown-Nagin
On June 10-12, 2014 Brandeis University will host a conference entitled “Blacks, Jews, and Social Justice in America" to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the slaying of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. [read post]
21 Jun 2005, 4:42 pm by Tom Lincoln
Such is the case with the conviction of Edgar Ray Killen for manslaughter in the deaths of Andrew Goodman, then 20, and Michael Schwerner, then 24, and James Earl Chaney, then 21, three young, idealistic civil rights workers who were in Mississippi in 1964. [read post]
23 Sep 2014, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
Romano brings readers into the courthouse for the trials of the civil rights era’s most infamous killings, including the Birmingham church bombing and the triple murder of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Mickey Schwerner. [read post]
20 Nov 2007, 10:06 pm
Dead were three civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney. [read post]
24 Sep 2023, 8:00 pm by Steve Gottlieb
  Description In the summer of 1964, the FBI found the smoldering remains of the station wagon that James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman had been driving before their disappearance. [read post]
20 Oct 2019, 4:49 am
Killen, (born 1938), American politicianWilliam Wilson Killen (1860–1939), Australian politicianClicking through on the American names, I see that the criminal, Edgar Ray Killen, is known to me through the crime:Edgar Ray Killen (January 17, 1925 – January 11, 2018) was a Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964. [read post]
10 Dec 2014, 4:28 pm by Joseph & Kirschenbaum LLP
In 1967, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, three young civil rights workers, were slain. [read post]
7 May 2009, 2:51 am
Jack Warner closed the animation division of Warner Bros.Venezuela: Sale officially on air television channel Venezolana de Television Network, through the VHF frequency band 8, which later would become Venezolana de Television, after its acquisition by the Venezuelan State.August 4: in Mississippi are the bodies of the civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, who had been killed by white cops on June 21.August 4: In the Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnamese… [read post]
13 Nov 2007, 6:11 am
On June 21, one day after his arrival, he and fellow activists Michael Schwerner and James Chaney disappeared. [read post]
14 Nov 2007, 6:42 am
On June 21, one day after his arrival, he and fellow activists Michael Schwerner and James Chaney disappeared. [read post]
14 Dec 2011, 10:24 am by Jess Bravin
In one of the era’s most notorious cases, three civil rights activists based in Meridian, local resident James Chaney and New Yorkers Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were murdered in 1964 by white supremacists. [read post]