CAL MISSING B THE FBI IS SEEKING INFORMATION CONCERNING THE DIS APPEARANCE AT PHILADELPHIA MISSISSIPPI OF THESE THREE INDIVIDUALS ON JUNE 21 1964 EXTENSIVE INVESTIGATION IS BEING CONDUCTED TO LOCATE GOODMAN CHANEY AND SCHWERNER WHO ARE DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS ANDREW GOODMAN JAMES EARL CHANEY MICHAEL HENRY SCHWERNER To a White RACE SEX DOB POB AGE HEIGHT Male November 23 1943 May 30 1943 New York City Meridian Mississippi 20 years 21 years 5 10 57 150 pounds 135 to 140 pounds Dark brown wavy Black Male November 6 1939 New York City 24 years 5 9 to 5 10 170 to 180 pounds Brown Light blue VEIGHT Brown HAIR EYES TEETH SCARS AND MARKS Good none missing 1 inch cut scat 2 inches above left ear Pock mark center of forehead slight scar on bridge of nose appendectomy scar broken leg scar SHOULD YOU HAVE OR IN THE FUTURE RECEIVE ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING THE WHERE ABOUTS OF THESE INDIVIDUALS YOU ARE REQUESTED TO NOTIFY ME OR THE NEAREST OFFICE OF THE FBI TELEPHONE NUMBER IS LISTED BELOW DIRECT FEDERA BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION INITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WASHINGTON DC 20535 TELEPHONE NATIONAL 8 June 29 1964
5 CHAPTER ONE Volunteers and activists of Freedom Summer knew their work could be dangerous On the morning of June 21 1964 three young men climbed into a station wagon in Meridian Mississippi Two were white men from the North Michael Schwerner was from New York He worked as a staff member for the Congress of Racial Equality CORE a civil rights group Andrew Goodman was a volunteer college student from New York City The third man James Chaney was a MISSING IN MISSISSIPPI
Congress of Racial Equality The Congress of Racial Equality CORE is a civil rights group Founded in 1942 it had an important role in the civil rights movement CORE was one of the main civil rights groups of the 1960s along with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP 6 young African-American civil rights activist from Mississippi The three men were part of the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project a nonviolent effort by civil rights activists to bring African Americans and whites together in Mississippi’s segregated political system The project would later be known as Freedom Summer It was a grassroots movement During the summer of 1964 hundreds of student volunteers from around the United States joined civil rights organizers and local African Americans in
Mississippi At the time Mississippi was one of the country’s most racist and segregated states Together students and activists worked to stop Mississippi’s whites from blocking African Americans from voting They helped African Americans register to vote They taught residents in special freedom schools They provided legal and medical help at community centers And they formed a new political party that was open to all people the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party MFDP They hoped to achieve equality and justice for all Americans The Ku Klux Klan a white supremacy group was very active in Mississippi Klan members threatened to harm and kill African Americans and civil rights workers Arrested On that morning of June 21 Schwerner Goodman and Chaney drove to Philadelphia Mississippi They visited Mount Zion Methodist Church A few days earlier Klan members had burned it down As they 7
