The Mississippi House debated yesterday over naming the new FBI field office building in Jackson for three slain civil-rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, reports the The Commercial Appeal.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson introduced the bill, which is expected to pass once a quorum is present. The House postponed their vote yesterday.
"These young men paid the ultimate price attempting to bring justice and equality to my home state of Mississippi," Thompson said from the House floor, reports The Commercial Appeal.
Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner were in Mississippi during "Freedom Summer" in 1964, registering African Americans to vote. They disappeared after being stopped for speeding, and the FBI found their bodies six weeks later in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Miss.
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