BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ZContent.net//Zap Calendar 1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20070101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Three civil-rights workers are killed in Mississippi UID:2008-10-15-00-36-07-63-@americanhistorycalendar.com SEQUENCE:0 STATUS:CONFIRMED TRANSP:TRANSPARENT RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYMONTH=6;BYMONTHDAY=21 DTSTART;TZID=UTC;VALUE=DATE:20080621 DTEND;TZID=UTC;VALUE=DATE:20080622 DTSTAMP:20260407T194604 CATEGORIES:Civil Rights Events LOCATION:Nashoba County\, Mississippi GEO:32.8057157;-89.1705998 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n\n\n

On June 21, 1964, three civil rights workers - James Chaney, a Black Mississippian, and Andrew Goo dman and Michael Schwerner, two white New Yorkers - were killed in Neshoba County, Mississippi. They were part of the Freedom Summer campaign, worki ng to register Black voters and promote civil rights in the segregated Sou th. The men disappeared after visiting a burned Black church and were late r found murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan with assistance from local law enforcement. Their deaths shocked the nation, drew global attention t o racial violence in the U.S., and helped drive support for landmark civil rights legislation.

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DESCRIPTION:On June 21\, 1964\, three civil rights workers - James Chaney\, a Black Mississippian\, and Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner\, two wh ite New Yorkers - were killed in Neshoba County\, Mississippi. They were p art of the Freedom Summer campaign\, working to register Black voters and promote civil rights in the segregated South. The men disappeared after vi siting a burned Black church and were later found murdered by members of t he Ku Klux Klan with assistance from local law enforcement. Their deaths s hocked the nation\, drew global attention to racial violence in the U.S.\, and helped drive support for landmark civil rights legislation.\n\n URL:https://americanhistorycalendar.com/component/zcalendar/2,2533-three-ci vil-rights-workers-are-killed-in-mississippi?Itemid= END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR