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Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
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1954–1968 U.S. social movement
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Andrew Goodman (activist)
American civil rights activist and murder victim (1943–1964)
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James Chaney
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Michael Schwerner
American activist and murder victim (1939–1964)
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Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
1964 murders of three activists in Mississippi, US
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Neshoba County, Mississippi
County in Mississippi, United States
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Ku Klux Klan
American white supremacist terrorist hate group
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