Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney were living their best lives as civil rights workers, determined to register African American voters in Mississippi during Freedom Summer. But their lives were brutally cut short by the Ku Klux Klan on June 21, 1964. After weeks of searching, their bodies were finally found on August 4, buried in an earthen dam in Neshoba County. The senseless murder of these courageous young men sparked national outrage, prompting President Lyndon B. Johnson to launch a federal investigation, and eventually, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law.