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How did you feel as you learned about the events related to this case?
Do you feel justice was served? Why or why not?
How do you think these events impacted the Civil Rights Movement as a whole?
What connections can you make between the events of this case and the world today? How are things similar or different?
President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law on August 6, 1965.
The bodies of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman were discovered on August 4, 1964. One year and two days later, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law prohibiting discriminatory voting practices that kept African American voter registration numbers in states like Mississippi incredibly low.
The movement that Chaney, Schwerner, and Goodman gave their lives in support of prompted a changed in federal law to make voting more accessible for all.
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