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Afro American Point of View
March 3, 2018
And while we're at it, let's honor Branch Rickey for hiring Jackie Robinson as the first Black MLB player and Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, the two White civil rights workers who were lynched along with a Black Mississippi colleague, James Chaney, in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Black folks inÃâà...
Hamilton Journal News
March 3, 2018
Michael Schwerner, 24, James Chaney, 21, and Andrew Goodman, 20, were murdered in Mississippi soon after leaving Oxford. ... a National Park Service program to educate the public and provide technical assistance for documenting, preserving and interpreting the history of the Civil Rights Movement.
Daily Mississippian
March 2, 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...
The Philadelphia Tribune
February 24, 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...
History
February 23, 2018
Raymond Arsenault, a civil rights historian and author of Freedom Riders, says that in 1960, white supremacists started to lean into this technique of ... White supremacists also pointed to a conspiracy after terrorists murdered Freedom Riders Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney inÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
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...
Tyler Morning Telegraph
February 22, 2018
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.
U.S. News & World Report
December 31, 1999
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...