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Participants in a march in Philadelphia, Mississippi, held in memory of three civil rights workers who had been murdered the year before.

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Metz, George

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The three men, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, were killed by Klansmen on June 21, 1964. The federal investigation into their deaths was code-named "Mississippi Burning."
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1965 06
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Copyright, Alabama Department of Archives and History. Donated by the Alabama Media Group, http://www.alabamamediagroup.com
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Civil Rights
  3. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  4. Philadelphia (Miss.)

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