The Murder Of Three Coire Workers In Mississippi In 1964

The Mississippi Murders three CORE workers were killed in Mississippi in 1964. There names were Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner. They were killed by Sam Bowers,Cecil Price, and Edger Ray Killen. Sam bowers the head of KKK of Mississippi. Gave out the order for elimination of Michael Schwerner. Edger tried to kill Schwerner but was unable to find him. At the church of Neshoba the tried to find Schwerner but instead found local black people. Then beat them up and burned down the church. The three CORE workers were absent at that time then went to investigate. But later they were arrested on the assumption of burning the church. They

Later on the FBI started an investigation to find the three CORE workers. Which was a massive investigation that referred to as MIBURN which stands for Mississippi burning. Later on the FBI increase the investigation, which eventually involved more than 200 FBI agents and scores of federal troops who combed the woods and swamps looking for the bodies of the three CORE workers. This incident helped 1964 Civil Rights Act to pass Congress on July 2. Delmer Dennis one of the contributors of the murder of three CORE workers. Was offered 30,000 dollars and immunity for information on the murder of three CORE workers. On August 4, the bodies of the three CORE workers were found. On December 4, nineteen men charged by the U.S. Justice Department for violating the civil rights of Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney. About three years of legal trouble, where the U.S. Supreme Court finally defended the charges, the men went on trial in Jackson, Mississippi.On October 27, 1967, an all-white jury found seven of the men guilty, including Price and KKK Imperial Wizard Bowers. Nine were acquitted, and the jury deadlocked on three others. The mixed verdict celebrated as a major civil rights