on June 21, 1964, the three men in the car were an unlikely trio. James Earl Chaney, a 21-year-old Black Mississippian, had a 10th-grade education and worked as an apprentice plasterer.

Michael (Mickey) Schwerner and James Chaney worked for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in nearby Meridian; Andrew Goodman was one of the hundreds of college students from across the country ...

HALF a century ago this week on the night of June 21 1964 three brave young civil rights’ workers, James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner, were shot dead at close range by a police-led ...