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Freedom Summer
1964
Philadelphia, Mississippi
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A thousand mostly white northern students came south to register Black voters. Three organisers, Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner, were stopped by a deputy near here, handed to the Klan and murdered. The search for them dragged the Mississippi and found other bodies nobody had been looking for.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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