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Civil rights activist Stephen Schwerner poses for a picture at his apartment in New York on May 9, 2023. Schwerner doesn't remember how he learned that his younger brother Michael, nicknamed Mickey, was missing in Mississippi along with colleagues Andrew Goodman and James Chaney. What he remembers is "We were sure they were killed." It was the summer of 1964, an era marked by murders, beatings, disappearances and church bombings amid the struggle for voting rights and the fight against segregation.(AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Voting activist killed during Freedom Summer in Mississippi believed country should be integrated

By Gary Fields - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2005, file photo, Edgar Ray Killen sits in court in Philadelphia, Miss. Killen, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted in the 1964 &quot;Mississippi Burning&quot; slayings of three civil rights workers, died in prison at the age of 92, the state's corrections department announced Friday, Jan. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Man convicted of 3 killing civil rights workers dies in jail

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and REBECCA SANTANA - Associated Press