Decapitated Black bodies surfaced while authorities hunted the three civil rights workers.

Evidence

Dennis is heard in voice-over, and then we see him, eyes gray and sullen, as he recalls a gruesome revelation made during the search. As local and national law enforcement looked for the three civil rights workers, they kept discovering other black bodies. “Sometimes, I mean, two and three and they found three bodies floating in the Mississippi one day,” Dennis remembers. “They had all been decapitated. Heads were gone. Cut up and everything else. All of sudden it hit us…what difference does it make?” he asked as he looked at Baldwin, who was off camera. “If it’s not Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. They were finding black people buried under trees, floating in rivers and everything else….People were being killed because they were attempting to get the right to vote.” — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 471