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 ...

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 ...