It was a warm summer day in Neshoba County, Miss. in June 1964. Three young men arrived to investigate a church fire bombing. It was about to become red hot. James E. Chaney, Andy Goodman and Mickey ...

On June 21, 1964, 60 years ago this week, my older brother Andrew Goodman was kidnapped and then murdered by the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi along with his co-civil rights workers ...

On June 21, 1964, three young men disappeared near the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi. Michael (Mickey) Schwerner and James Chaney worked for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in nearby ...

Left to right: the murdered civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Earl Chaney and Michael Henry Schwerner. It started with a traffic stop. A Black man driving with two White men was pulled over ...

When civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner went missing in Philadelphia, Miss., on June 21, 1964, Lawrence Guyot Jr. was among the friends who mourned them as ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Never before seen case ...

The conviction yesterday of Edgar Ray Killen for manslaughter in the deaths of three civil rights workers – James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman – in Mississippi 41 years ago is no less ...

At the White House today, President Obama will present the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 19 Americans. Three young men killed by the Ku Klux Klan 50 years ago ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — The three mothers in playwright Ajene D. Washington’s well-intentioned, if dramatically insubstantial, “Three Mothers” are in mourning. The year is 1964. The setting is the expansive ...