JUSTICE 40 YEARS LATER: TWO BLACK MEN CHAINED TO AN ENGINE BLOCK ALIVE AND THROWN IN MISSISSIPPI RIVER
JUSTICE 40 YEARS LATER: TWO BLACK MEN CHAINED TO AN ENGINE BLOCK ALIVE AND THROWN IN MISSISSIPPI RIVER. One of the most troubling incidents during the civil rights struggle in the South happened July 12, 1964, it was the 21 st day of the search for civil rights workers Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman in Mississippi. There were over 400 sailors who were working with the FBI searching the woods, swamps, and rivers. A brutalized corpse of a man was found across the state in an offshoot of the Mississippi River on the Louisiana side. There were speculation that it was the body of a civil rights worker. The very next day, a few miles south, another body was found, also tortured, and people thought another body of a civil rights worker had been discovered. But, the bodies were of two totally different men. Both of the men were black and had been missing since early May in Meadville, Mississippi. With that news came the awful realization that a searc...