In 1964, three young civil rights activists—James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner—were investigating arson at a black church in Neshoba County, MS, and suspected a group led by a local sheriff's deputy. While they were driving to Meridian, a group of KKK members in police cars pulled them over, shot and killed Goodman and Schwerner (who were white), whipped the African American Chaney with a chain, then shot and killed him, too. While some of the murderers were convicted in the first successful federal prosecution of a Mississippi civil rights case, others got off. Edgar Ray Killen didn't meet justice until 2005, and five other suspects were never prosecuted. 
UGA professor Jerry Gale has arranged for the 2008 documentary Neshoba: The Price of Freedom to be screened at the Morton Theatre—a local landmark of black history—along with a panel discussion among director Micki Dickoff, the Rev. Julia Chaney-Moss (James Chaney's sister) and former Athens Mayor Doc Eldridge. Tickets are required and are available at the Morton Theatre box office. This free event begins at 7 p.m.