Amid Freedom Summer, a daring effort to register Black ... The atrocity became a seminal moment in the civil rights movement. Yet on the murders’ 60th anniversary, which is Friday, some people ...

During a 1964 effort to register Black people to vote, known as Freedom Summer, the Ku Klux Klan killed three civil rights activists in Philadelphia, Miss. In this special “Post Reports ...

Though the protests were nonviolent, Freedom Summer was still marked by violence, including the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, the case that ...

Amid Freedom Summer ... forward to help Freedom Summer. (John Lindsay/AP) The atrocity became a seminal moment in the civil rights movement. Yet on the murders’ 60th anniversary, which is ...

Schwerner, however, was not there that day; he had gone to Oxford, Ohio, to train a group of Freedom Summer volunteers ... insufficient evidence. Because murder was a crime covered by state ...

"Freedom Summer," a suspenseful play by Toby Armour ... Police, white citizens' councils and the KKK used arrests, arson, and murder to oppose the project. This play is inspired by the ...

It was also the summer of the infamous murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, three Freedom Summer activists who were abducted and killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi.

Though full voter enfranchisement was ultimately unsuccessful, Freedom Summer empowered the masses ... More were victims of violence. Many murders went unsolved but the workers continued.

Schwerner, however, was not there that day; he had gone to Oxford, Ohio, to train a group of Freedom Summer volunteers ... insufficient evidence. Because murder was a crime covered by state ...