5/9/2023 0 Comments Death by Jill Thompson![]() ![]() ![]() Although it was discovered that the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office and the Philadelphia, Mississippi Police Department were involved, only 7 men were convicted and served less than six years. Their bodies were found two months later. Working with "Freedom Summer", they were registering African-Americans to vote in the Southern states. In 1964, in June, three young civil rights workers - Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi - were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi. President Eisenhower ordered federal troops - the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army - to guard the students and allow them entry. Orval Faubus had previously prevented the students from entering the school at the beginning of the term with the Arkansas National Guard - they blocked the door. In 1957, in the year that Jill (Thompson) Zivley was born, on September 24th, the "Little Rock Nine" (nine African-American students) entered Little Rock High School. Add Jill's birthday or the date she died to see a list of historic events ![]()
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