Three lives for Mississippi

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Three lives for Mississippi
Three Lives for Mississippi is a literary work by William Bradford Huie that vividly details the heinous murders of three Civil Rights activists in Mississippi. The book is set at the peak of the American Civil Rights Movement in 1964, when Mississippi came into the limelight in the United States as a hotbed of bloodshed and black segregation in the wake of the Black Civil Rights struggle. Huie highlights the air of atrocities that surrounded the period leading to the Freedom Summer murders, which cast Mississippi as a venue for arbitrary and wanton murders. As a journalist working for the New York Herald Tribune at the time, Huie was sent to Mississippi on a mission to investigate the three murders.
The three activists killed included Andrew Goodman, James Earl Chaney, and Michael Henry Schwerner. Goodman and Schwerner were white men commonly referred to as outside agitators since they came from the north, while Chaney, a black man considered a Negro, was from Mississippi. Huie tells of how the three men met their deaths while on a campaign to register black voters in the state of Mississippi. This unfortunate event occurred as they set out to investigate circumstances that resulted in the burning of a church in the black community. The police arrested the activists on trumped-up charges, put them under custody for hours, before setting them free after dark. Their freedoms led them directly into the trap of the …