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soulrevision: [For more on social justice, follow me on Instagram: soulrevision , Tumblr: soulrevision , Facebook: soulrevision , Twitter: soulrevision] On this day, June 21, 1964, three Freedom Summer volunteers were murdered by the KKK & the Neshoba County Sheriffs Department in Mississippi.During the summer of 1964, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney & Michael Schwerner (ages: 20, 21, & 24, respectively) volunteered for Freedom Summer in an effort to register members of Mississippi’s black communities to vote.The 3 young men had set out to investigate the burning and destruction of a church, telling other volunteers to search for them if they were not back by 4pm. While on the road, the 3 were pulled over by Deputy Cecil Price (a member of the KKK) and arrested. They were jailed briefly and released that night. While on the road again, they were stopped by the KKK who shot and killed all 3 of them, and buried them beneath a 15ft earthen dam. The bodies of the young men were found 44 days later after an informant tipped off the FBI. The federal government initially charged 18 men with the crime, but were only able to secure convictions for 7 of them. The charges were not for murder, but for conspiring to deprive the 3 murdered men of their civil rights. The 7 men found guilty of murder were sentenced to 3-10 years in prison, none of them served more than 6 years.The FBI referred to the investigation of the 3 missing Freedom Summer volunteers as, Mississippi Burning. The movie, with the same title, was inspired by the events of that summer and the trial that followed. If you don’t know what Freedom Summer was, I encourage you to research it. #NeverForget #FreedomSummer -- source link