April 30, 2014
On June 21, 1964, three young civil rights workers--a 21-year-old Mississippian, James Chaney (center), and two white New Yorkers, Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner (far left), 24--were murdered near Philadelphia, in Nashoba County, Mississippi. (All three) had been working to register black voters in Mississippi during Freedom Summer and had gone to investigate the burning of a black church. They were arrested by the police on trumped-up charges, imprisoned for several hours, and then released after dark into the hands of the Ku Klux Klan, who beat and murdered them.
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Danny Glover to Serve as Keynote Speaker for U of C’s Freedom Summer Commemoration Event
Actor and activist Danny Glover is the featured speaker for the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture’s (SRPC) annual public lecture that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Summer Project, a 1964 effort that took Northern college students to Mississippi to support African- American's right to vote in that state and resulted in the death of three Civil Rights Workers.