In 1964, civil rights workers Michael H. Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney were slain in Philadelphia, MS; their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later. (41 years later on this date in 2005, Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman, was found guilty of manslaughter; he was sentenced to sixty years in prison, where he died in January 2018.) #FreedomSummerMurders#CivilRights
