1964
Racial violenceBook sources
Murders of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner
Mississippi; civil-rights workers
Three voting-rights workers were detained, released and then murdered by a white-supremacist conspiracy. The killings exposed connections between local law enforcement and racial terror.
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Context / qualification
The transcript overgeneralizes convictions; the sheriff and deputy did not have identical trial outcomes.
Sources
- Howard Zinn, The Twentieth Century: A People’s History, H00 at 00:42:09 (approximate; supplied recording)
- Howard Zinn, The Twentieth Century: A People’s History, H00 at 00:42:51 (approximate; supplied recording)