Editing Bogue Chitto, Mississippi (section)

==History==
During [[Freedom Summer]] of 1964 and a voter registration drive, three civil rights workers: [[James Chaney]], [[Andrew Goodman (activist)|Andrew Goodman]] and [[Michael Schwerner]], were killed by [[Ku Klux Klan members]] about 10 miles north of Bogue Chitto on the night of June 21, 1964. Their bodies were discovered by the FBI and other law enforcement, buried in an earthen dam on the [[Old Jolly Farm]] in [[Neshoba County, Mississippi]] in August 1964.<ref name="MiM PBS">{{cite web |title=Murder in Mississippi |website=[[PBS]] |url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedomsummer-murder/ |accessdate=17 December 2019}}</ref> The murders galvanized national attention and contributed to passage of the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]].

The events were the subject of the 1988 drama film ''[[Mississippi Burning]]''.