FORT WAYNE, Indiana--It was a defining moment in the Civil Rights movement, dramatized by the movie 'Mississippi Burning'…the murder of three young civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner in Meridian Mississippi. The three were part of the so-called Freedom Riders who spent the summer of 1964 registering Black voters in the south. Goodman and Schwerner were white New Yorkers…James Chaney was from Meridian.
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