ABSTRACT
After the fact, civil rights activists called June-August 1964 Freedom Summer. On June 21, the second group of volunteers for Mississippi voter registration drives and related educational projects was arriving in Oxford, Ohio, to receive training before entering the field. Near Philadelphia, Mississippi, that same day, first-batch volunteer Andrew Goodman joined staff members James Chaney and Michael Schwerner to investigate a church bombing. Local police arrested the three on traffic charges, detained them past nightfall, and then released them. The three civil rights workers disappeared. The next day, passersby found their incinerated station wagon near a swamp.
