The Philadelphia Murders
The Philadelphia Murders
Mississippi, 1964
DOI:10.14325/mississippi/9781604738285.003.0011
This chapter describes Gray’s involvement in the activities of the Mississippi Council on Human Relations (MCHR); the murder of three civil rights workers, two of them white Northerners and one a black Mississippian, in Neshoba County in east central Mississippi; and Gray’s assessment of the impact of Freedom Summer in a memorandum addressed to Leslie Dunbar, executive director of the Southern Regional Council in Atlanta.
Keywords: MCHR, Mississippi Council on Human Relations, civil rights workers, Freedom Summer