Mississippi civil rights worker murdersMississippi civil rights workers murders Location Neshoba County, Mississippi Date June 21, 1964 (Central) Target James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner(top to bottom) Attack type Murder/Lynching Deaths Three members of COFOThree American civil rights' workers, James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, were lynched on the night of June 21–22, 1964 by members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County's Sheriff Office and the Philadelphia Police Department located in Philadelphia, Mississippi. However, outrage over their deaths assisted in the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act as Martin Luther King, Jr. and others look on, July 2, 1964. More than 1,500 people, including civil rights leaders and Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, joined them to voice their desire to revisit the case. The sympathetic portrayal of FBI agents in the first two movies angered civil rights activists, who believed the Bureau received too much credit for solving the case and too little condemnation for their previous lack of action in regards to civil rights abuses.