Fifty-seven years ago this week, three civil rights workers — James Chaney of Mississippi, age 21, Andrew Goodman of New York, age 20, and Mickey Schwerner of Westchester County, 25 — were murdered in Neshoba County, Miss., by a white terrorist gang that included a deputy sheriff and other Klansmen. Chaney, Goodman and Chaney were registering Black voters. They had enlisted in a thousand-strong corps of volunteers, most of them college students, summoned to Mississippi by a coalition of civil rights groups under the rubric of Freedom Summer.
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