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Events on Sunday 21 June 1964 1
1964Freedom Summer murders of civil rights workersChaney, Goodman and Schwerner killed in MississippiThree civil rights workers registering Black voters in Mississippi were abducted and murdered by Ku Klux Klan members with the involvement of local police. Their deaths, and the search for their bodies, drew national attention to violent resistance against the civil rights movement.