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James Chaney, 21, Michael Schwerner, 24, and Andrew Goodman, 20, trained at Western College for Women before heading south to register Black voters as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. They left Oxford June 20, 1964, and disappeared the next day in Mississippi. Their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later.
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