21 June 2016

History for the day: 1964: KKK killings


On 21 June, 1964, three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner,  disappeared in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Their bodies were found, buried in an earthen dam, six weeks later. Eight members of the Ku Klux Klan went to prison on Federal conspiracy charges; none served more than six years.

Rico says he was young, but still remembers... (And six years for three murders? That's a crime.)

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