On Sunday June 21 Michael Schwemer, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman stood in the ruble of what was going to be their first freedom school. The church they had organized it at had just recently allowed it. They had a great fear that something like this could take place. Now their church was nothing, but a pile of ruble Several church members where beaten by Klansmen and the 3 men where now in danger. The men who burned down the church were now looking for Schwerner.
Schwerner 24 and a social worker from NY had worked for CORE since January and became used to all the threats. Schwerner had a short beard and in the South no respectable southern man wears facial hair.
The KKK had plotted to kill him as early as March, but all attempts had failed. Schwerner's closest friend James Chaney had helped ta
Chaney 21 the eldest of a traveling plasterer and a domestic servant. He had been suspended from school at 16 years for wearing a NAACP button. By the time he was working for CORE he knew very well to keep quite about his views. It's a very dangerous type of work for a black southerner. Chaney who was behind the wheel when he and Schwerner left the church knew every aspect of the town.
Price held the three without allowing them to use the phone. Around 10 that night they were released and told to go directly to Meridian.
These arrests set on a long planned scheme. Immediately KKK members gathered for assignments. One member was sent to contact a local bulldozed operator.
When the three men left the church they were headed to Philadelphia, Mississippi. Just near the town limits they where
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