Murders of Mississippi

By George and Miles

 

On June 21,1964 three young civil rights

workers were murderd in Noshoba, county

Mississippi. Michael Schwerner,

Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney.

were down investigating the burning of

the Mount Zoin Curch set on fire by the Klu Klux Klan.

 

 

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Sam bowers was the Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of

the Klu Klux Klan who was killing all

civil rights workers in Philadalphia Mississippi.

 

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At this time so it made going here very

 

dangerous for civil right workers.

The Klan's first attempt to eliminate

Schwerner came on June 16, 1964 in the

rural Neshoba County community of Longdale.

Schwerner had visited Longdale on Memorial Day

to ask permission of the black congregation at

Mount Zion Church to use their

church as the site of a "Freedom School."

The Klan knew of Schwerner's Memorial Day

 

visit to Longdale and expected him to return

for a business meeting held at the church on

the evening of June 16. About 10 p.m., when

the Mount Zion meeting broke up, seven

black men and three black women left the building

to discover thirty men lined up with rifles and shotguns.

More men were gathered at the rear of the church.

Frustrated when their search for Schwerner was

unsuccessful, some of the Klan

members began beating the departing blacks.

Ten gallons of gasoline were removed from one

of the Klan members cars and spread

around the inside of the church. Mount Zion Church

was soon in flames.

 

While arriving down in Mississippi they were riding

around in their car and when two police officers arrested

them for being suspicaly involved

with the burning. And they had to spend three nights

in jail.

 

It was a long high speed car chase but the klan finally got

them and caputerd them.

It is not known whether the three were beaten before they

were killed. Klan informants deny that they were, but there

is some physical evidence to

the contrary. What is known is that a twenty-six-year-old

dishonorably discharged ex-Marine, Wayne Roberts, was the

trigger man, shooting first

Schwerner, then Goodman, then Chaney,.

(FBI informant James Jordan, according to a second

informant present at the killings,

Doyle Barnette, also fired two shots at Chaney.) The bodies of

the three civil rights workers were taken to a dam site at the

253-acre Farm.The farm was owned by Philadelphia

Olen Burrage.

 

 

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