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[[images - black and white photographs of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman]]
[[caption]] Michael Schwerner (L), James Chaney, (C.) and Andrew Goodman, three civil rights workers involved in the Mississippi Project, a voter registration drive, disappeared on June 21, 1964. The Ku Klux Klan termed the disappearance a hoax aimed at winning sympathy and funds for the desegregation cause until 44 days later searchers dug up the trio's mutilated bodies from under a clay dam in a wooded area outside Philadelphia, Miss. Seven Ku Klux Klan members convicted in the triple slaying received prison sentences ranging from three to ten years. [[/caption]]

[[image - black and white photograph of Ida B. Wells]]
[[caption]] Ida B. Wells, author of a three-year statistical record of lynchings, A Red Record. [[/caption]]

[[image - black and white photograph of a group of white men at a lynching]]
[[caption]] Brutal lynchings, like the public triple slaying of three black men (above) during the early '20s in [[text cut off]] Klux Klan-infested Marion, Ind., were common occurrences in both the North and South. Aimed at keeping blacks in a perpetual state of terror, lynchings were stepped [[text cut off]] whenever and wherever blacks intensified their struggle for equality.[[/caption]] 

[[image - black and white headshot photograph of an African-American man in military uniform]]
[[caption]] Cpl Roman Duckworth, an Army military policeman, was murdered in 1959 by a Mississippi peace officer who shot him when he refused to move to the back of a Treadways bus. On emergency furlough, he was enroute to his sick wife's bedside when he was shot dead. [[/caption]]

[[image - black and white photograph of Medgar Evers]]
[[caption]] Medgar Evers, field secretary of the Mississippi NAACP, was gunned down with a high-powered rifle in front of his JAckson, Miss.,  home in 1963 at the height of his struggle to desegregate public facilities in Jackson. A white segregationist Mississippi Citizens Council member, Byron de la Beckwith, who was charged with the crime after his fingerprints were found on the rifle, was acquitted by juries in two subsequent trials. [[/caption]]

[[image - black and white photograph of Malcolm X]]
[[caption]] Malcolm X, firebrand spokesman for the Nation of Islam until his ouster from the religious sect in 1964, was assassinated in 1965 in New York City by black gunmen of undetermined affiliation while addressing followers of his newly-formed Organization for Afro-American Unity. At time of his death, the radical leader was waging efforts aimed at airing U.S. blacks' plight before the United Nations General Assembly. [[/caption]]

[[image - black and white photograph of Denise McNair]]
[[caption]] Denise McNair, 11, and three other black girls, Carole Robertson, 14, Addie Mae Collins, 14, and Cynthia Wesley, 14, were killed in 1963 when a bomb exploded in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham during Sunday School. [[/caption]]