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During the first weekend of Freedom Summer 1964, three civil rights workers
- Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman - disappeared.
Authorities ultimately discovered their bodies outside of Philadelphia, Mississippi. In Freedom's Blood (1979), James D. Forman has written a novel for young people reconstructing the events of that weekend, using details provided by verified reports of the actual event. |
| The Murderer Vine (1970), by Shepard Rifkin is much more loosely based upon the three murders. In this tale, the wealthy father of one of the victims offers a New York detective one hundred thousand dollars to execute each of the five suspected killers, including the local sheriff. |
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