Contacts between federal agents and Freedom Movement activists, Philadelphia, Mississippi, 1964 June 21 - June 25
This typed document chronicled contacts between federal agents and the Freedom Movement activists in the Philadelphia, Mississippi case, where three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman disappeared just before the 1964 Freedom Summer. Their bodies were later discovered buried in a dam by federal authorities after an anonymous tip. The case received national attention and shed light on the violence with which black Mississippians had been living for all of their lives.
Item information:Organizational document
Created 1965-01-01 in Unknown
5 pages, 8.5x11
Archive information:
Tougaloo College Archive - T-90.22
Edward King Collection, Box 14, folder 741
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