On June 21, 1964, three civil rights workers disappeared in central Mississippi. New Yorkers Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, and a local fellow, James Chaney, were on their way back from training session in Ohio. There had been a fire in the church where the men established a Freedom School to help blacks gain the right to vote. They were chased by Klansmen who shot and buried them a few miles from the Mt. Zion Church.
