On this day: June 21

1. 1964
   Victim James Earl Chaney · Mississippi Burning murders

   A Black Mississippian working with CORE on Freedom Summer voter registration.

2. 1964
   Victim Andrew Goodman · Mississippi Burning murders

   A New Yorker who had come to Mississippi for Freedom Summer.

3. 1964
   Victim Michael Schwerner · Mississippi Burning murders

   A New Yorker working for CORE in Neshoba and Lauderdale counties.

4. 1964
   Other Mount Zion Methodist Church, Longdale · Mississippi Burning murders

   The three men came to Longdale on June 21 to see the site of Mount Zion Methodist Church, which had been burned.

5. 1990
   Court / trial Bedford County Courthouse · Haysom murders

   Soering was tried in Bedford County Circuit Court in June 1990, before jurors brought in from Nelson County, and convicted of two counts of first-degree murder. The trial was televised.

6. 2005
   Court / trial Neshoba County trial, Philadelphia · Mississippi Burning murders

   A Neshoba County jury convicted Edgar Ray Killen of three counts of manslaughter on June 21, 2005. He was sentenced to 60 years.