Amy Goodman
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Mississippi Burning at 50: Relatives of Civil Rights Workers Look Back at Murders that Shaped an Era
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10:17Now PlayingThis week marks the 50th anniversary of the murders of three young civil rights workers who traveled to Mississippi for Freedom Summer, the historic campaign to register AfricanAmerican voters. On June 21, 1964, James Chaney, Andy Goodman and Michael Schwerner went missing after they visited a church in Neshoba County, Mississippi, which the Ku Klux Klan had bombed because it was going to be used as a Freedom School. Fortyfour days after the trio's disappearance, FBI agents found their bodies buried in an earthen dam. During the sixweek search, the bodies of nine black men were also dredged out of local swamps. The murders in Mississippi outraged the nation, and propelled the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. We are joined by family members of two of the victimsRev. Julia ChaneyMoss, who was 17 years old when her brother was killed; Angela Lewis, Chaney's daughter, born just 10 days before his death; and David Goodman, president of the Andrew Goodman Foundation, named after his brother.
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