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In public accommodations, in education, in employment. if a court finds you guilty of violating some part of the civil rights law, and if you continue violating the law, you can be fined or put in jail until you stop violating the law. three civil rights workers have disappeared in mississippi. they have not been heard from. so far only one clue, the burned out station wagon in which the three were last seen riding there is little hope that they are still alive. schwerner, chaney and goodman were found shot to death at the in the grave at the base of a recently built dam just six miles from the city of philadelphia. their bodies wrapped in plastic bags numbered one, two, and three were taken to the state medical center in jackson for identification and examination. ....
Correspondent frank mcgee. first, the known facts. james chaney, andrew goodman, and schwerner went to mississipms mississippi to register negroes as voters. it had been stressed that the federal government could offer them little protection. the bodies of schwerner, chaney and goodman were found later that summer, three young men murdered by the kkk trying to register black voters in mississippi. the man at the center of the battle, freedom summer, 50 years later he s back in mississippi organizing with the new generation. he will be my guest, coming up. ....
But the attorney general gets new power to bring suits against racial discrimination in voting, in public accommodations, in education, in employment. if a court finds you guilty of violating some part of the civil rights law, and if you continue violating the law, you can be fined or put in jail until you stop violating the law. three civil rights workers have disappeared in mississippi. they have not been heard from. so far only one clue, the burned out station wagon in which the three were last seen riding there is little hope that they are still alive. schwerner, channey and goodman were found shot to death at the base of a recently built dam just six miles from the city of philadelphia. their bodies wrapped in plastic bags numbered one, two, and three were taken to the state ....
three civil rights workers have disappeared in mississippi. they have not been heard from. so far only one clue, the burned out station wagon in which the three were last seen riding there is little hope that they are still alive. schwerner, chaney and goodman were found shot to death at the base of a recently built dam just six miles from the city of philadelphia. their bodies wrapped in plastic bags numbered one, two, and three were taken to the state medical center in jackson for identification and examination. the two white boys were shot once each through the heart. james chaney, the black youth had been beaten with chains until every bone in his body was broken, then he was shot three times. ....
Unless they cast a democratic vote in the lightly attended democratic primary in mississippi on june 3rd. if you just say broadly it s illegal for democrats to vote tomorrow, maybe you might dissuade from democrats from voting tomorrow. desperate times apparently call for desperate measures. or the same old racist politics call for the same old racist measures. even when it is a runoff like this and not a general election, apparently this stuff they think will work. and it is kind of amazing timing. i mean, outside of this senate race in mississippi, the past week in mississippi has pretty much been dominated by the fact that we are right now at the 50 year anniversary of mississippi freedom summer in 1964. at the end of last week, we sent producers to meridian, mississippi, to the grave site of james chaney of chaney, goodman and schwerner. that exact same weekend, the 50 year anniversary of the murder ....