By Victor Trammell Photo credits: FBI Files On August 4, 1964, the decomposed bodies of three civil rights staffers were discovered on a property outside Philadelphia, Mississippi. On June 21, 1964, their abductions drew widespread notice across the nation. They were recovered in an earthen dam, in a shallow grave. Both Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner (two […]
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