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A reading room inside a Freedom School, where students gathered to learn, read, and imagine a different future. Photo Credit: Patti Miller. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b474845a005c1291a017e7/1779309453097-6P7NLXQ9XNBQ730ZFC00/cofo-hq.jpg The Archive - Fieldnote: A Grave at the Edge of the Road - COFO Offices. Meridian, MS. 1964 The COFO office in Meridian, Mississippi, a central hub for organizing during Freedom Summer. Photo Credit: Patti Miller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b474845a005c1291a017e7/1779309454211-06DYHPD3XZNAXULTQMGI/LevyinMeridian-300x232.jpg The Archive - Fieldnote: A Grave at the Edge of the Road - Volunteer Mark Levy and Meridian High School Students Mark Levy (far right) talking with high school students Lelia Jean Waterhouse, Roscoe Jones and Caroline Tartt (front row, left to right) outside the Meridian Freedom School in the summer of 1964. Mark Levy Collection. Queens College/CUNY Civil Rights Archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b474845a005c1291a017e7/1779309454283-8TSKS86HCUF29JADC1GI/m00320-newseum_wide-2feb632b8dc84a60a5d10e9cd7769f3adf678c94-s1600-c85.webp The Archive - Fieldnote: A Grave at the Edge of the Road - Locals & Volunteers Working Together Freedom Summer volunteers and locals canvass in Mississippi in 1964 to get black people to the polls. Photo Courtesy of Ted Polumbaum/Newseum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b474845a005c1291a017e7/1779309455278-ROR6XU2EOLNEH8OD1IVT/photo11.jpg The Archive - Fieldnote: A Grave at the Edge of the Road - Alice Robertson, Meridian Community Member Who Housed Volunteer Patti Miller Alice Robertson, who housed Patti Miller of Iowa during her time in Meridian. These acts of care and protection made the work possible, even as the risks remained. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b474845a005c1291a017e7/1779309455312-S263JCTW5MABW9Z92W6L/photo12.jpg The Archive - Fieldnote: A Grave at the Edge of the Road - The Robertson Family, Meridian, Mississippi Alie Robertson and her brave family housed Freedom Summer Volunteer Patti Miller of Iowa during Freedom Summer, 1964. Their bravery also made Freedom Summer possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b474845a005c1291a017e7/1779309456373-KQBC6QLAFCGVOJXZGD5F/seeger3.webp The Archive - Fieldnote: A Grave at the Edge of the Road - Community Engagement was a Large Part of the Work Mark and Betty Levy with students at the Freedom School. Mark Levy Collection. Queens College/CUNY Civil Rights Archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b474845a005c1291a017e7/1779309456400-O901NWNYJUQBLGBQW8XZ/seeger11.webp The Archive - Fieldnote: A Grave at the Edge of the Road - Pete Seeger & Meridian Community Members COFO workers and community members join hands with folk singer Pete Seeger, gathering in song just weeks after the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. A reminder that the work did not stop. Photo Credit: Patti Miller, Freedom Summer Volunteer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b474845a005c1291a017e7/1779311469511-BHJPDPQQSS9C3668TIAN/fbi_missing_2ecae834b4.jpg The Archive - Fieldnote: A Grave at the Edge of the Road - FBI Flyer of Missing Civil Rights Workers The FBI flyer circulated during the search for James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. I have seen this image of Chaney so many times. It is the same one etched into his grave. Photo Credit: FBI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b474845a005c1291a017e7/1779310728877-T8LBCH3XGRHFERASU50T/images-1.jpg The Archive - Fieldnote: A Grave at the Edge of the Road - The Search for the Missing Three Federal and state investigators probe the swampy area near Philadelphia, Miss., where the burned station wagon of the missing civil rights trio was found June 23, 1964. The civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, 24, Andrew Goodman, 21, both white and James Chaney, 21, black, were last seen in Philadelphia, Miss., Sunday night, June 21, 1964. AP Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b474845a005c1291a017e7/1779310729990-FIPTDML6B15EWCQYVTKR/remembering-in-black-and-white-mlk-visit.jpg__800x1132_q85_crop_subsampling-2.jpg The Archive - Fieldnote: A Grave at the Edge of the Road - Memorial, Protest and Witness Martin Luther King, Jr. next to Floyd McKissick on the steps of the Neshoba County Courthouse during June 1966 march for Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman. Law enforcement and other county officials look on from above. Credit: Matt Herron/Take Stock/TopFoto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b474845a005c1291a017e7/1779310779839-X473JS1HSNRY32DADEWO/remembering-in-black-and-white-cecil-p.jpg__1600x981_q85_crop_subsampling-2.jpg The Archive - Fieldnote: A Grave at the Edge of the Road - Neshoba County Protest Neshoba Countians march for Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman, near Philadelphia, Miss. on June 21, 1965. Dep. Sheriff, Cecil Price, a Klan member later convicted on federal civil rights charges in the murders, watches. Credit: Matt Herron/Take Stock/TopFoto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b474845a005c1291a017e7/1779310730491-B04Z9WDM4CF1GUYWCXWA/remembering-in-black-and-white-image-zion.jpg__1400x1064_q85_crop_subsampling-2-1.jpg The Archive - Fieldnote: A Grave at the Edge of the Road - Burned Ruins of Mt. Zion Methodist Church in Neshoba County, Mississippi. Bob Moses speaks in August 1964 during a memorial service for Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman in the burned ruins of the Mt. Zion Methodist Church in Neshoba County, Mississippi. Credit: Tamio Wakayama/Take Stock/TopFoto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b474845a005c1291a017e7/1779310731657-GCZCNPX7DNX3F0LUPP13/2019.23.15.jpg The Archive - Fieldnote: A Grave at the Edge of the Road - The Chaney Family Waiting for News James Chaney’s family, including his mother Mrs. Fannie Lee Chaney awaits news from the FBI on the search for her son. Photograph by Steve Schapiro. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b474845a005c1291a017e7/1779312607976-P0IUS7G02LLWMOUCQDEH/high.webp The Archive - Fieldnote: A Grave at the Edge of the Road - The Car Was Discovered Two Days After the Three Went Missing “Mississippi Burning” is a historical crime thriller film loosely based on the 1964 murder investigation of three Congress of Racial Equality civil rights workers—James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner—who were killed in Philadelphia, Miss., by the Ku Klux Klan. Pictured is the burned station wagon a local Choctaw man found two days after the CORE workers disappeared. Photo courtesy FBI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b474845a005c1291a017e7/1779312104978-OWA5TIYTVJFXDRY4T43F/chancarburned.jpg The Archive - Fieldnote: A Grave at the Edge of the Road - The Burned Out COFO Station Driven by the Three Civil Rights Workers In this picture released by the FBI and the State of Mississippi Attorney General's Office, the burned-out station wagon that slain civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were driving in is seen in June 1964 in the Bogue Chitto swamp, some 13 miles northeast of Philadelphia, Miss. 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FBI/State of Mississippi Attorney General's Office/Getty Images https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b474845a005c1291a017e7/1779312106577-71CL2JKOH60E9Y6PD4TK/high-2.webp The Archive - Fieldnote: A Grave at the Edge of the Road - A Solemn Grave Three Freedom Summer workers were investigating the burning of a Black church in the Choctaw community of Bogue Chitto, when they disappeared in June 1964. On Aug. 4, 1964, their bodies were found buried on the secluded property (pictured) of Klansman Olen Burrage not far from the Pearl River Choctaw Indian Reservation in western Neshoba county. Photo FBI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b474845a005c1291a017e7/1779312106600-C2VO1ZIIYEEJ31N4LP0S/NYJA000703.jpg The Archive - Fieldnote: A Grave at the Edge of the Road - Charred Remains of the Station Wagon The burned chasis of a station wagon used by three missing civil rights workers is towed from a swamp near Philadelphia, Mississippi, where it was found abandoned. 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Photo Credit: Author, Kratina Baker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b474845a005c1291a017e7/1779313405997-M0MLVF2MXTIXDTK3EOUB/IMG_1319+%281%29+copy.jpg The Archive - Fieldnote: A Grave at the Edge of the Road - A Roadside Sign Points the Way. The sign leads visitors to the Okatibee Cemetery where James Chaney is buried. Photo Credit: Author, Kratina Baker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b474845a005c1291a017e7/1779313261005-AQBDSEWHEC512QPI1RUD/IMG_1310+%281%29.jpg The Archive - Fieldnote: A Grave at the Edge of the Road - Powerful Words on James Chaney's Grave Close up of the words etched into Chaney’s grave. The inscription reads: “There are those who are alive yet will never live. There are those who are dead yet will live forever. Great deeds inspire and encourage the living.” Photo Credit: Author, Kratina Baker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b474845a005c1291a017e7/1779313247288-1OWQRW8W8S6D4DM8ABV0/IMG_1316+%281%29.jpg The Archive - Fieldnote: A Grave at the Edge of the Road - A Selfie With JE Just me and JE Photo Credit: Author, Kratina Baker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b474845a005c1291a017e7/1779313246803-4KKEGRQXNCVU37E9TWW2/6442194_118161294248.jpg The Archive - Fieldnote: A Grave at the Edge of the Road - A Grave at the Side of the Road A grave at the side of the road: A wide shot of James Chaney’s grave sitting just off the road in Meridian, Mississippi, held in place, but never far from the movement of those who pass by. 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