That changed on June 21, 1964, when James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner went missing in the southern town. After digging for hours on a steamy August morning, investigators finally ...

Michael (Mickey) Schwerner and James Chaney worked for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in nearby Meridian; Andrew Goodman was one of the hundreds of college students from across the country ...

“This is the decisive battleground for America,” O’Donnell quoted northern civil rights activist Michael Schwerner, who ended up being killed in the South by members of the Ku Klux Klan in 1964.

Folk singer Pete Seeger was performing for a Meridian, Mississippi church congregation when he got word that the bodies of missing civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James ...