On June 21, 1964, three civil rights movement activists, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, were murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi by local members of the White Knights of the
The burnt-out station wagon of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
Missing persons poster created by the FBI in 1964, shows the photographs of Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner.
Parties to the conspiracy; Top row: Lawrence A. Rainey, Bernard L. Akin, Other "Otha" N. Burkes, Olen L. Burrage, Edgar Ray Killen. Bottom row: Frank J. Herndon, James T. Harris, Oliver R. Warner, Herman Tucker and Samuel H. Bowers
Ford Station Wagon location near the Bogue Chitto River near Highway 21 (32°52′54.15″N 88°56′16.87″W / 32.8817083°N 88.9380194°W / 32.8817083; -88.9380194)
Edgar Ray Killen
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Edgar Ray Killen was an American 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 F
Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
…sentences. Outrage over the activists' murder helped pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Forty-one years after the murders took place, one perpetrator, Edgar Ray Killen, was charged by the state of Mississippi for his part in the crimes, and in 2005 was convicted of three counts of manslaughter and was given a 60-year…
Booking photo, late 1964
Mt. Zion Church state history marker
The entrance of Mississippi State Penitentiary, where Killen was incarcerated