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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1347815" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>June 21, 1964</p><p> </p><p>In Neshoba County in central <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/mississippi" target="_blank">Mississippi</a>, three civil rights field workers disappear after investigating the burning of an African American church by the <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/ku-klux-klan" target="_blank">Ku Klux Klan</a>. Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, both white New Yorkers, had traveled to heavily segregated Mississippi in 1964 to help organize civil rights efforts on behalf of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). The third man, James Chaney, was a local African American man who had joined CORE in 1963. The disappearance of the three young men garnered national attention and led to a massive FBI investigation that was code-named MIBURN, for "Mississippi Burning."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1347815, member: 1246"] June 21, 1964 In Neshoba County in central [URL='http://www.history.com/topics/mississippi']Mississippi[/URL], three civil rights field workers disappear after investigating the burning of an African American church by the [URL='http://www.history.com/topics/ku-klux-klan']Ku Klux Klan[/URL]. Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, both white New Yorkers, had traveled to heavily segregated Mississippi in 1964 to help organize civil rights efforts on behalf of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). The third man, James Chaney, was a local African American man who had joined CORE in 1963. The disappearance of the three young men garnered national attention and led to a massive FBI investigation that was code-named MIBURN, for "Mississippi Burning." [/QUOTE]
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