Papers, 1964-2000.

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Papers, 1964-2000.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173692548

Papers concerning the 1964 murder of Mrs. Goodman's son Andrew, a civil rights volunteer in Mississippi. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1964-1971, and is described in the register. Additional accessions date 1989-2000 and document events memorializing Andrew Goodman in 1989 and 2000.

0.4 c.f. (1 archives box),4 reels of microfilm (35mm),10 photographs, and1 film; plusadditions of 0.1 c.f.,1 videorecording, and1 photograph.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6922892

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Goodman, Carolyn, 1915-2007

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Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cz35rz (person)

Andrew Goodman, along with hundreds of other students, was a volunteer in the Mississippi Summer Project launched in June 1964 to register black Mississippi residents to vote and to establish Freedom Schools. He along with another white activist, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney, an African-American resident of Mississippi and Project volunteer, were shot to death on June 21, 1964. The disappearance and murder of the three men led to the intervention by President Lynden Baines Johnson and an F...