What happened to the three students on June 21st 1964?

On June 21, 1964, civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney were abducted and murdered in Mississippi while organizing efforts to register African American voters. The three men were targeted by members of the Ku Klux Klan, who opposed their civil rights activism. Their bodies were discovered weeks later, highlighting the violent resistance to civil rights in the South and sparking national outrage. This incident became a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement.