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 ...

Yet on the murders’ 60th anniversary, which is Friday, some people here worry that the country is forgetting what was learned along the way. Others wonder what the past is owed — and for how long.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

It was the summer of 1964, an era marked by murders, beatings ... voters in Mississippi during what was called Freedom Summer, and the discovery of their bodies weeks later was an inflection ...

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.

Just come see "Freedom Summer," he says. "If you really knew what was behind racism, all the murder, all the beatings, all the fights that had to go on, just to get rights, would you really make ...