Missing Persons

As the baseball fans of Philadelphia were celebrating the perfect game victory of the Phillies over the Mets, there was something else going on in another Philadelphia, another "city of brotherly love".
Philadelphia, Mississippi.
We would hear about it on the news.
The names of three young men who had disappeared.
Three young men, one black, two white.
Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner.
These young men were civil rights workers trying to educate and register black people to vote in the south.
Agitators, they were called by the police and politicians in Mississippi.
Informing black people of their rights as Americans was not welcome in Mississippi.
Three young men had disappeared.
One black, two white.
Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner.
Their names repeated again and again on the evening news.
The Ku Klux Klan was suspected.
Members of the police were suspected.
Men in hoods and sheets burning crosses on the evening news.
Three young men had disappeared.
Vanished into the night.
One black, two white.
Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner.
Not a trace, not even their car could be found.
On a lonely road it happened.
Outside of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Every night on the evening news, the same sad story.
Three young men had disappeared.
One black, two white.
Chaney. Goodman. Schwerner.
Chaney. Goodman. Schwerner.
Outside of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Vanished into the night...