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Sacramento Bee
April 29, 2018
... Neshoba County Jail where civil rights activists Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman were detained before Ku Klux Klansmen killed them in 1964; and the Biloxi medical office of Dr. Gilbert Mason, who organized wade-ins to integrate public beaches on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Birmingham Times
April 27, 2018
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schewerner, were three activists abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in June 1964 in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. They had been working with the Freedom Summer campaign by attempting to register African Americans to voteÃâà...
New York Times
April 25, 2018
“Black and brown people are still presumed dangerous and guilty,” said Bryan Stevenson, a civil rights attorney and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, .... the cases of the Freedom Summer volunteers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, who were abducted and murdered in 1964.
The Jewish Voice
April 25, 2018
Joel Spingarn were leaders who gave their guidance and financial support during the early dangerous years of the civil rights movement. Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman sacrificed their lives in 1964 marching with the Rev. Martin Luther King Civil Rights campaign. Where and when has thereÃâà...
The Nation.
April 25, 2018
This excerpt is adapted from Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement, published by the New Press and .... In the summer of 1964, she addressed the NAACP convention at a time when the civil-rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and MichaelÃâà...
Memphis Flyer
April 12, 2018
Not long after he had been freed from prison, the former deputy sheriff met me at the motel where I was staying. His name was Cecil Ray Price, and he had been convicted of sending three civil rights workers to their deaths. Their names — never to be forgotten — were Andrew Goodman, MichaelÃâà...
La Jolla Light
April 12, 2018
It was outrage over the beating and shooting deaths of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner by the Ku Klux Klan — Schwerner was Murphy's roommate — that helped gain the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (You might remember a little movie, Mississippi Burning, releasedÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
April 8, 2018
The photos include one of Martin Luther King smiling and holding a cue stick as he's surrounded by listeners inside a Neshoba County pool hall shortly after the slayings of three civil rights workers near Philadelphia. It would be another month or so before the bodies of James Chaney, Andrew GoodmanÃâà...
Charleston Post Courier
April 4, 2018
“I met Dr. King again at the Penn Center on St. Helena and the Highlander Center in Tennessee, during a couple of week-long voter-registration trainings for civil rights workers, and again during the marches in Mississippi in protest of the deaths of (James) Chaney, (Andrew) Goodman and (Michael)Ãâà...
The Saratogian
April 4, 2018
Not long after he had been freed from prison, the former deputy sheriff met me at the motel where I was staying. His name was Cecil Ray Price, and he had been convicted of sending three civil rights workers to their deaths. Their names -- never to be forgotten -- were Andrew Goodman, Michael SchwernerÃâà...
theday.com
April 3, 2018
Not long after he had been freed from prison, the former deputy sheriff met me at the motel where I was staying. His name was Cecil Ray Price, and he had been convicted of sending three civil rights workers to their deaths. Their names − never to be forgotten − were Andrew Goodman, Michael SchwernerÃâà...
Publishers Weekly
March 30, 2018
The authors also link King's murder to the 1964 murder of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner; they believe both were orchestrated by the Ku Klux Klan. While it may be overly optimistic to hope, as the authors do, for a reopening of the case by federal authorities 50Ãâà...
LancasterOnline
March 25, 2018
Think of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee during America's civil rights movement. Think of the sit-ins, the Vietnam protests. Think of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, the civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi in 1964. Think of any young woman who hasÃâà...
Meridian Star
March 23, 2018
In the summer of 1964, civil rights workers descended on Mississippi to register black voters and show them how to exercise their rights at the ballot box after being effectively disenfranchised since 1890. Among the group that went to Philadelphia were 20-year-old Andrew Goodman of Ohio, 24-year-oldÃâà...
Southern Poverty Law Center
March 22, 2018
In the summer of 1964, civil rights workers descended on Mississippi to register black voters and show them how to exercise their rights at the ballot box after being effectively disenfranchised since 1890. Among the group that went to Philadelphia were 20-year-old Andrew Goodman of Ohio, 24-year-oldÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
March 5, 2018
Moody's involvement in the civil rights movement put her at the epicenter of key historical events, Barnes said. She was with Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney a week before the three civil rights workers were killed and buried in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Miss., and sheÃâà...
Galesburg Register-Mail
March 5, 2018
The June 25 Register-Mail front page carried the news that a search was being widened for three missing civil rights workers: Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney. The three young men had gone missing on June 21 in Mississippi, near the rural town of Philadelphia. “About 200Ãâà...
Daily Mississippian
March 1, 2018
In 2004, the institute supported Philadelphia community stakeholders seeking justice for James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, the civil rights activists murdered during the 1964 Freedom Summer. Their calls culminated in the 2005 conviction of Klansman Edgar Ray Killen. NationallyÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
February 25, 2018
Moody's involvement in the civil rights movement put her at the epicenter of key historical events, Barnes said. She was with Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney a week before the three civil rights workers were killed and buried in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Miss., and sheÃâà...
NRToday.com
February 23, 2018
One of the other people being honored Friday for civil rights work is Rita Schwerner Bender, who demanded answers from Mississippi officials after her first husband, Michael Schwerner, and two other activists, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, were killed outside Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1964Ãâà...
Tribune-Review
February 22, 2018
One of the other people being honored Friday for civil rights work is Rita Schwerner Bender, who demanded answers from Mississippi officials after her first husband, Michael Schwerner, and two other activists, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, were killed outside Philadelphia, Miss., in 1964 — a caseÃâà...
The Philadelphia Tribune
February 10, 2018
Speakers include David Goodman, the brother of Andrew Goodman, who was 20 years old when he and two other civil rights activists were ambushed and killed by Ku Klux Klansmen during Freedom Summer. Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney had been investigating the burningÃâà...
SFGate
February 9, 2018
Speakers include David Goodman, the brother of Andrew Goodman, who was 20 years old when he and two other civil rights activists were ambushed and killed by Ku Klux Klansmen during Freedom Summer. Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney had been investigating the burningÃâà...
Georgetown University The Hoya
February 8, 2018
23 to join the inaugural Puffin Fellows program, a fellowship from the Andrew Goodman Foundation that focuses on expanding voting access. The foundation was founded in 1966 by the parents of civil rights and voting rights activist Andrew Goodman, who was murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan inÃâà...
Hamilton Journal News
December 31, 1999
At the beginning of the year, President Donald Trump signed a bill that creates The African American Civil Rights Network Act and establish a National Park Service program to educate the public and provide technical assistance for documenting, preserving and interpreting the history of the Civil RightsÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
December 31, 1999
While conducting voter registration workshops throughout the South, a bout with bronchitis prevented Dennis from riding in the car with the three civil rights workers he was training — James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman — the night they were killed by Ku Klux Klan members on aÃâà...
WBRC FOX6 News
December 31, 1999
His accolades include the university's Lift Every Voice Award and the Andrew Goodman Foundation Hidden Heroes Award. According to the press release, Coon ... He said he would then likely return to Mississippi to work on civil rights, voting rights and education. “I've been blessed to attend alongsideÃâà...
The Philadelphia Tribune
December 31, 1999
One of the other people being honored Friday for civil rights work is Rita Schwerner Bender, who demanded answers from Mississippi officials after her first husband, Michael Schwerner, and two other activists, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, were killed outside Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1964Ãâà...
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
December 31, 1999
... James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, were killed outside Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1964 — a case that became known by its FBI name, "Mississippi Burning," speaks with reporters prior to the Friends of Mississippi Civil Rights gala Friday, Feb. 23, 2018 in Jackson, Miss., she and four other civil rightsÃâà...
Law.com
December 31, 1999
One of the other people being honored Friday for civil rights work is Rita Schwerner Bender, who demanded answers from Mississippi officials after her first husband, Michael Schwerner, and two other activists, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, were killed outside Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1964—aÃâà...
Tyler Morning Telegraph
December 31, 1999
Black History Month: Jackson State troupe performs civil rights piece at UT Tyler .... The production recalls the memories of those who suffered, bled and died in the struggle for civil rights, with special tribute paid to Medgar Evers, Emmett Till, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney.
History
December 31, 1999
Raymond Arsenault, a civil rights historian and author of Freedom Riders, says that in 1960, white supremacists started to lean into this technique of discrediting ... White supremacists also pointed to a conspiracy after terrorists murdered Freedom Riders Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and JamesÃâà...
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