Bogue Chitto is a census-designated place (CDP) situated in Kemper and Neshoba counties, Mississippi.
During Freedom Summer of 1964 and a voter registration drive, three civil rights workers: James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were killed by Ku Klux Klan members about 10 miles north of Bogue Chitto on the night of June 21, 1964.
Their bodies were discovered by the FBI and other law enforcement, buried in an earthen dam on the Old Jolly Farm in Neshoba County, Mississippi in August 1964.
[2] The murders galvanized national attention and contributed to passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 864 people, 114 households, and 92 families residing in the CDP.
11.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 3.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.