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 ...

While the abduction and murder of Chaney ... The party was formed by Black residents of Mississippi, as part of the Freedom ...

Deeply affected by the murder of Evers as well as the four ... Ladner welcomed the help and the attention that Freedom Summer volunteers brought to Mississippi in 1964.

Freedom Summer, also known as the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive sponsored by civil rights organizations including the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the ...

Mitchell's reporting resulted in convictions in the murders of Medgar Evers, Vernon Dahmer Sr., the four young girls killed in the Birmingham church bombing and the Freedom Summer murders of James ...