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Posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Tue Mar 3 16:16:43 2015, in response to Re: Netanyahu's Speech, posted by SLRT on Tue Mar 3 16:09:24 2015. n 1964 three Mississippi civil rights workers were murdered on the night of June 21–22 in Neshoba County. They were James Earl Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi, and Andrew Goodman and Michael "Mickey" Schwerner from New York City, who were abducted, shot at close range and killed by members of the local White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office, and the Philadelphia Police Department of that city in Mississippi. The three young men had been working on the "Freedom Summer" campaign, attempting to prepare and register African Americans to vote after they had been disenfranchised since 1890.The disappearance and feared murders of these activists sparked national outrage and a massive federal investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation referred to this investigation as "Mississippi Burning" (MIBURN). They found the bodies of the three workers 44 days after they disappeared; they were buried in an earthen dam near the murder site. After the state government refused to prosecute, the federal government initially charged 18 individuals with civil rights violations. Seven were convicted and received relatively minor sentences for their actions. Outrage over the activists' murders helped gain passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.[citation needed] |
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