1964 – Murder of Civil Rights Workers in Mississippi

On June 21, 1964, civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi. The trio was working to register Black voters during the Freedom Summer campaign. Their deaths shocked the nation and galvanized support for the civil rights movement, leading to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. BET

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