Word: schwerner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hearing will begin at 10:30 a.m., and King is expected to be free in time for the service, according to William Crout, assistant in the Memorial Church Mrs. Rita Schwerner, the wife of one of the three workers, will be accompanying King, and may also attend the service, Crout said...
...outraged and disgusted that members of our U.S. Navy are used for the purpose of trying to locate three no-good rabblerousers in the South. Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman went to Mississippi looking for trouble, and if they got it, they deserved...
There was a flurry of excitement when the mutilated body of a young white man was found at Oakland, Miss., about 100 miles from the search area. At first it appeared that it might be the body of Michael Schwerner, one of the missing trio. It was later identified as that of a carnival worker run over in a highway accident...
While booking them-Chaney for speeding, and Schwerner and Goodman "for investigation"-Mrs. Millie Herring, wife of the jailer, wrote "Negro male" after each man's name, then scratched out the entry beside Schwerner's and Goodman's and penned in "white." Said she later: "I declare, I was just so confused I wrote it wrong." All three were questioned, fed a meal of spoon bread, green peas, potatoes and salad by Mrs. Herring. Then, after Chancy paid a $20 fine, they were told to get out of the county...
Deputy Price followed them to the edge of town, later said he saw their car head south down Mississippi Highway 19 toward Meridian. Price was the last person known to have seen Schwerner, Chancy and Goodman. That was at 10:30 Sunday night...