June 21, 1964 – Civil Rights Workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner Are Killed
![By Federal Bureau of Investigation (Federal Bureau of Investigation) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons FBI Poster of Missing Civil Rights Workers](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/FBI_Poster_of_Missing_Civil_Rights_Workers.jpg/256px-FBI_Poster_of_Missing_Civil_Rights_Workers.jpg)
Missing persons poster created by the FBI in 1964. Shows the photographs of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner
![By Creator:Warren K. Leffler [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons African american and white mississippi freedom democratic party 05237u](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/African_american_and_white_mississippi_freedom_democratic_party_05237u.tif/lossy-page1-800px-African_american_and_white_mississippi_freedom_democratic_party_05237u.tif.jpg)
On August 24, 1964 African American and white Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party supporters demonstrating outside the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey; some hold signs with portraits of slain civil rights workers James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover tells President Lyndon B. Johnson on June 23, 1964 that the car of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner has been found burned. They have not been able to examine the car for bodies yet because the car is still burning.
In this video, Angela Lewis, the daughter of murdered civil rights worker James Chaney sings at his grave near Meridian, Mississippi “If I Can Help Somebody” to the 2013 Living Legacy Pilgrimage. Lewis was born 10 days before her father was killed.