Died For Freedom

ID: 5859 ~ Source: Photograph, Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, August 27th, 1964, The Mark Levy Collection, The Civil Rights Archives of the Queens College, Freedom Summer Text & Photo Archive, Queens College Special Collections and Archives, Mississippi. https://digital.lib.miamioh.edu/digital/collection/fstxt/id/1551/

This file appears in: Spokanites and the Civil Rights Movement, 1964-1965: Solidarity between North and South

Poster advertising a public-speaking event by Chaney’s mother following her son and his companions’ deaths, New Orleans, LA.

This file appears in: Spokanites and the Civil Rights Movement, 1964-1965: Solidarity between North and South

Spokanites and the Civil Rights Movement, 1964-1965: Solidarity between North and South

By Mikhail Hammer

On June 21st, 1964, one black and two white student activists were killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Only three weeks later, three lawyers from Spokane, Washington, two white and one black departed…