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Freedom Information Service--Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman General Statements and Information (Freedom Information Service records, 1962-1979; Historical Society Library Microforms Room; Micro 780, Reel 2, Segment 8)

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This folder contains materials related to the disappearance and murder of the three civil rights workers, Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman. The three disappeared while investigating a church burning near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Documents describe the FBI investigation into their disappearance, the involvement of the white citizens councils in monitoring the activities of civil rights workers in Mississippi, and the U.S. Dept. of Justice's subsequent involvement in search for the three missing men. Statements by various parties including Rita Schwerner and Bob Zellner, Lawrence Guyot of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and SNCC chairman John Lewis are included.
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Legal Documents Memoranda Press Releases Reports And Surveys
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Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited.
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Keywords

  1. Bender, Rita L
  2. Chaney, James Earl, 1943 1964
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Civil Rights Workers
  5. Dulles, Allen, 1893 1969
  6. Finney, Thomas
  7. Goodman, Andrew, 1943 1964
  8. Guyot, Lawrence, 1939 2012
  9. Lewis, John, 1940 Feb. 21
  10. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  11. Murder
  12. Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939 1964
  13. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
  14. United States
  15. United States. Department Of Justice
  16. United States. Federal Bureau Of Investigation
  17. White Citizens Councils
  18. Zellner, Bob

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