Mets Fans For Justice, 1964

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After six months in Mississippi, Mickey Schwerner already was considered a veteran of the movement. A native of Brooklyn and graduate of Cornell University, Schwerner had started out as a social worker on New York's Lower East Side. Drawn to the civil rights movement, he had joined CORE in Mississippi, where he impressed CORE leaders as a superb organizer, able to persuade poor blacks like those in Longdale to stand up and fight for their rights. With his prominent nose, well-trimmed goatee, New York Mets baseball cap, and standard movement uniform of T-shirt and blue overalls, Schwerner had become much noticed in Meridian and the surrounding countryside.

--from Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America by Nick Kotz, 2005

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In the movie Mississippi Burning, the racist Sheriff's Deputy (played by Brad Dourif), is at home watching a Nationally televised Mets-Cardinals Game. I think I remember Joe Christoper, and maybe Ron Hunt, mentioned during the broadcast.

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The real-life disappearance/murder of Schwerner and two of his fellow civil rights workers occurred on June 21, same days as Jim Bunning's perfect game.