Fact #93009
When:
Short story:
Three
young civil rights workers - James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and
Michael Schwerner - are murdered near Philadelphia, Nashoba
County, Mississippi, USA. While investigating the burning of a
black church, they had been arrested by the police, then released
after dark into the hands of the Ku Klux Klan, who beat and
murdered them. The story is told in the song He Was My Brother by Simon And
Garfunkel.
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