#OnThisDay in 1964, the search for three missing civil rights activists — James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner — came to a tragic end. Learn more about the "Freedom Summer Murders": https://comca.st/37jq2r5 | Voices of the Civil Rights Movement

On Aug. 4, 1964, the search for three missing civil rights activists came to a tragic end. Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney worked to organize black citizens to vote, and were shot to death. Nineteen men were indicted; an all-white jury found seven guilty. | Voices of the Civil Rights Movement

James Chaney, Mickey Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman's murders made the danger of the Freedom Summer mission clear: "Everybody was in grave danger, and that these Mississippians would kill all of us, white and black." | American Experience | PBS