Which civil rights organization did the murdered activists belong to?
Congress of Racial Equality
NAACP
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Answer
The three civil rights activists murdered by Edgar Ray Killen's plan were members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). They were participating in the Freedom Summer campaign to register African American voters in Mississippi.
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