The nation’s voting systems have been under unprecedented attack from multiple angles.
Michael Schwerner, 24, from left, James Chaney, 21, and Andrew Goodman, 20, were murdered in 1964 trying to register Black people in Mississippi to vote.They were working as part of Mississippi Freedom Summer, registering Black people to vote.
Schwerner and Goodman were white, Jewish and from New York City. Chaney was Black and from Mississippi. All three were in their 20s. Schwerner was married. He stopped them again and this time delivered the three to a gang of Klansmen on remote Rock Cut Road, where they were shot and killed. FBI field agents searched for the three men. Eventually, they received a tip about where the bodies were buried.Mississippi state authorities refused to bring murder charges against any of the Klansmen. But in 1967, the federal government brought charges of civil rights violations against 18 Klan members.Commentary: Dark history hovers over today’s efforts for voting rights
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