FBI building to carry civil rights workers' names
By Bartholomew Sullivan (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
Posted June 18, 2010
WASHINGTON -- Mississippi Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker, both R-Miss., and U.S. Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, D-Miss., reached an agreement Thursday on naming the new FBI building in Jackson, Miss., for three slain civil rights workers.
Under the compromise, the names of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were abducted and killed by Ku Klux Klansmen outside Philadelphia, Miss., in 1964, would be added with the name of Special Agent Roy K. Moore.
Moore was the agent who established the first FBI field office in Mississippi after the Philadelphia murders and led the successful investigation of them.
Thompson's bill with the three names passed in March. A companion Senate measure is pending before the Environment and Public Works Committee. The compromise would also have to be voted on, with the proposed change, in the House.
