Word: schwerner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cynics are saying-and they are probably right--that a Mississippi jury will never consider convicting the alleged murderers of James Chancy, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman. It is a repellent thought, but disgust should not blind us to the possible significance of the FBI arrests; they may well mark a successful end to the first phase of Mississippi's Negro revolution...
...most important case under investigation by the grand jury (22 whites, one Negro) was the murder of three young civil rights workers: New Yorkers Michael Schwerner, 24, and Andrew Goodman, 20, and Meridian, Miss., Negro James Chaney, 21. The three disappeared on June 21 after Cecil Price arrested them near Philadelphia on a charge of speeding. Six weeks later their bodies were dug up from a nearby farmer's dam; all had been shot to death...
...Meridian COFO office, for example, called the FBI at 9 p.m. on June 21, notifying them that the trio of workers was missing. Had the FBI acted then, with a routine visit or phone call to local jails, Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman might be alive today...
...Meridian COFO office, for example, called the FBI at 9 p.m. on June 21, notifying them that the trio of workers was missing. Had the FBI acted then, with a routine visit or phone call to local jails, Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman might be alive today...
...Before going to the polls in November, I hope the names of three great Americans will be remembered: Schwerner, Chancy and Goodman...