EOTO Reflection Post:
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/case-files-on-1964-civil-rights-worker-killings-made-public/2542137/
For this EOTO presentation I was able to work in a group where we were able to share events that were occurring during the time period of the Brown versus Board of Education Case. Some of the events my classmates presented were : The Murder of Emmett Till, Bloody Sunday, and the Little Rock Nine Crisis. This was an important assignment which helped my classmates and me better understand the time period of the case, and the social issues facing our country.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/chaney-goodman-schwerner-murdered/
After careful research of different events during this time period, and discussing them with my professor, I chose to learn more about The Three Civil Rights Workers. This was an extremely sad event where three men were viciously murdered fighting for equality and liberty within the United States. I was unaware about this case before my research, and it was important to me to learn more about, and better understand, the time period and the social and political events of the era.
https://mscivilrightsproject.org/neshoba/event-neshoba/the-murder-of-chaney-goodman-and-schwerner/
The event happened when Micheal Schwerner (24 years old), James Chancy (21 years old), and Andrew Goodman (20 years old) traveled to Neshoba County Mississippi. They went there to investigate, advocate, and learn more about the burning of Mt. Zion Methodist Church. The church served as a” freedom school” which was a free school for African Americans, because they were not given public education in Mississippi at the time. This was an important job for these civil rights workers and all they wanted to do was help solve the problem at hand.
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/mississippi-burning
The three civil rights workers were kidnapped by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi.They “vanished” and were “assumed missing.”They were tortured, and murdered for their work. The KKK were helped by the local sheriff, underscoring the extreme amount of racism in the area during the time period.
Devastatingly, their bodies were later found in a ditch several months after, in August 1964. Their case got a lot of attention, and there were many protests on their behalf which helped to spark a national change to occur. In 1980, for example, Ronald Reagan, began his Presidential election run by giving a speech about state rights while walking a distance from the dam where their bodies were found.
https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/aug/04
Below is the slide I presented virtually to the class. I was able to make a powerpoint that summed up all of the information talked about in this blog post and presented pictures for the class to see. Below is also the link to see and learn about some of the other events discussed in the project.
Link for presentation:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VCxhkyYmvCDmna8ZfZf0sl_24q
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