* 1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Simon showed Garfunkel a few songs that he had written in the folk style: " Sparrow ", " Bleecker Street ", and " He Was My Brother ", which was later dedicated to Andrew Goodman, a friend of both Simon and Garfunkel and a classmate of Simon's at Queens College, who was one of three civil rights workers murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, on June 21, 1964.

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** Union ( partly in Neshoba County )

Neshoba County is a county located in the U. S. state of Mississippi.

The county is known for the Neshoba County Fair and harness horse races.

President Ronald Reagan launched his 1980 presidential campaign from the Neshoba County Fair, delivering a speech about economic policy that drew attention for the use of the phrase " states ' rights " in an area associated with the 1964 murders.

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Neshoba County, Mississippi

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* Bogue Chitto ( mostly in Neshoba County )

Records showed the commission passed the information on to the Sheriff of Neshoba County, who was implicated in the murders.

On the morning of June 21, 1964, the three men set out for Philadelphia, Neshoba County, where they were to investigate the recent burning of Mount Zion Methodist Church, a black church that had agreed to be a site for a Relign School for education and voter registration.

The trio was taken to the jail in Neshoba County where Chaney was booked for speeding, while Schwerner and Goodman were booked " for investigation ".

The Neshoba County deputy sheriff and six conspirators were convicted by Federal prosecutors of civil rights violations but were not convicted of murder.

In June 1964, Chaney, Schwerner, and Goodman went to Neshoba County, Mississippi to meet with members of a black church which had been bombed and burned.

Pearl River is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Neshoba County, Mississippi.

Pearl River is served by the Neshoba County School District.

Philadelphia is a city in and the county seat of Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States.

Tucker is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Neshoba County, Mississippi.

Tucker is served by the Neshoba County School District.

Bogue Chitto is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Kemper and Neshoba counties, Mississippi.

Most of the reservation is in Neshoba County with a portion extending into western Kemper County.

The Neshoba County portion of Bogue Chitto is served by the Neshoba County School District.

Union is a town in Neshoba and Newton counties, Mississippi.

Most of the town is in Newton County with a portion extending north into adjacent Neshoba County.

Choctaw is an unincorporated community and Indian reservation in Neshoba County, Mississippi.

Additionally, the Neshoba Unitarian Universalist Church, founded in 1992 in the area where the commune was located, is named after Nashoba.

The region of Neshoba county and the surrounding counties was the heart of the Choctaw Nation from the 17th century until removal of most of the people in the 1830s.

The Mississippi civil rights workers ' murders involved the lynching of three anti-racism and social justice activists near Philadelphia in Neshoba County, Mississippi on June 21, 1964, during the American Civil Rights Movement.

Neshoba, derived from the Choctaw word nashoba, means Wolf.

Ku Klux Klan members ( including Cecil Ray Price, the deputy sheriff of Neshoba County ) released the three young men from jail, took them to an isolated spot, and killed them.

On August 3, 1980, Ronald Reagan gave his first post-convention speech at the Neshoba County Fair after being officially chosen as the Republican nominee for President of the United States.

Jim Prince, publisher of the local The Neshoba Democrat newspaper said, " Philadelphia will always be connected to what happened here in 1964, but the fact that Philadelphia, Mississippi, with its notorious past, could elect a black man as mayor, it might be time to quit picking on Philadelphia, Mississippi.