The 1964 killings of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner in Neshoba County sparked national outrage and helped spur passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

As James Chaney's family awaited the drive to his burial, 12-year-old Ben gazed outward. "There were a dozen questions in that look," says photographer Bill Eppridge.

52 years ago today, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner went missing—and the state has finally given up hope that their murderers will be brought to justice.

Mississippian James Chaney and New Yorkers Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner–in the small town of Philadelphia, Miss. to register black voters– were ambushed by the Ku Klux Klan and shot to ...

He was buried in a cemetery not far south of the remote, wooded area where Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman were executed. His gravestone includes the title of “Rev.” James A. Young, 68 ...

Monday, June 21, is the 40th anniversary of the deaths of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner. New Yorker Michael Schwerner, a Cornell University sociology major, Mickey to family ...

Fifty-five years ago Friday, three civil rights workers — James Chaney, 21, Andrew Goodman, 24, and Michael Schwerner, 20 — went missing in Mississippi. Earlier that night, they had been ...

The medal will be awarded on Nov. 24 to the families of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were killed on June 21, 1964, near Philadelphia, Miss.