The Nation - News from June 21, 1989
Hundreds of northern civil rights workers arrived in Mississippi to take part in memorial services commemorating the murders of James E. Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael H. Schwerner on June 21, 1964. An FBI investigation revealed Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney were killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and their bodies were buried in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Miss. The murders occurred while the three volunteers were trying to keep alive a voter registration drive in Neshoba County, where Philadelphia is located. The riders, predominantly blacks who had traveled 30 hours from New York and Pennsylvania, were scheduled to spend the night in Meridian, Miss.
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