During the summer of 1964, civil rights activists James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman set out to register black Mississippians to vote. For this, they were murdered by Ku Klux Klan members. Chaney, Schwerner, and Goodman's murders set off a chain of events that called the racist culture of Mississippi, and of the nation as a whole, into question.

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Sources:

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/Account.html

https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2004/jun/21/down-a-southern-road/

https://apnews.com/3d82e778b5d643088268c3214ae904f8

https://dickatlee.com/issues/mississippi/mississippi_eyewitness/valley_of_fear.html

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedomsummer-murder/

https://mscivilrightsproject.org/neshoba/event-neshoba/the-murder-of-chaney-goodman-and-schwerner/

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/3/7/14456154/dehumanization-psychology-explained

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-the-darkness/201801/the-psychology-racism

The Ascent of Man: Theoretical and Empirical Evidence for Blatant Dehumanization by Nour Kteily

The Freedom Summer Murders by Don Mitchell

The Psychology of Racism: An Introduction to the Special Issue by Jennifer A. Richeson

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