AM21-054, June 28, 1964
Accession
Form of Material
AP photograph of Highway patrol officers and FBI dragging the Pearl River near Philadelphia looking for the bodies of missing Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.
Dates
- June 28, 1964
Conditions Governing Access
Noncirculating; available for research.
Biographical / Historical
The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders or the Mississippi Burning murders, refers to three activists who were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in June 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement.
Extent
1 Photographic Prints
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Provenance
Purchased with Culpepper funds
Date of Receipt: March 8, 2021
- Chaney, James Earl (1943-1964)
- Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Civil rights workers -- Mississippi. Subject Source: Local sources
- Crime -- Mississippi. Subject Source: Local sources
- Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964
- Mississippi Freedom Project. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photographs. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964
Repository Details
Part of the Historical Manuscripts and Photographs Repository
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