The three activists had arrived to check on the latest church burning. But before the sun rose the next morning, Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman would all be dead, ambushed by the Ku Klux Klan as they were heading out of Neshoba County.
It took a massive FBI mobilization 44 days to find the brutalized bodies. It took years for even a modicum of justice.
It took a massive FBI mobilization 44 days to find the brutalized bodies. It took years for even a modicum of justice.