Andrew Goodman Memorial collection 1943-2010 [bulk 1946-2000]

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Andrew Goodman Memorial collection 1943-2010 [bulk 1946-2000]

1943-2010

https://archives.nypl.org/scm/25643

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. The Andrew Goodman Memorial collection consists primarily of news clippings and other printed material related to the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner.

1.38 linear feet (5 boxes)

eng, Latn

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 8112747

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964

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James Earl Chaney (May 30, 1943 – June 21, 1964) was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) civil rights workers killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan on June 21, 1964. ...

Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964

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Michael Henry Schwerner (November 6, 1939 – June 21, 1964) was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) field workers killed in rural Neshoba County, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan. ...

Andrew Goodman Foundation

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Ku Klux Klan 1915-....

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The Ku Klux Klan was formally incorporated under the laws of the state of Georgia on Dec. 4, 1915. The incorporated organization is a continuance of the earlier post Civil War Reconstruction Era unincorporated Ku Klux Klan and of the Knights of the White Camellia. Women of the Ku Klux Klan was incorporated at a late date as a separate entity. The stated purpose of the KKK was to promote an all White, Protestant United States, excluding all other races and religions. From the descript...

Barnett, Horace Doyle

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Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964

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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...

Killen, Edgar Ray

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Chaney Goodman Schwerner Memorial Coalition

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Posey, Buford W.

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