They met in Mississippi in the summer of 1964 to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in what was one of the nation’s most viciously racist, segregated states. Watch FREEDOM SUMMER now streaming → pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/freedomsummer/ | American Experience | PBS

#OnThisDay in 1964, the search for three missing civil rights activists — James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner — came to a tragic end. Learn more about the "Freedom Summer Murders": https://comca.st/37jq2r5 | Voices of the Civil Rights Movement

James Chaney, Mickey Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman's murders made the danger of the Freedom Summer mission clear: "Everybody was in grave danger, and that these Mississippians would kill all of us, white and black." | American Experience | PBS