Andrew Goodman

 

        Andrew Goodman, a civil rights activist, was born in 1943. He was one of the three civil rights workers killed by the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) in Mississippi in 1964. In early June, while attending the training session at Western College in Oxford, Ohio, he met and joined the CORE (Congress of Racial Equality.) he immediately began participating in events, such as the sit-ins movement. He worked with James Chaney and Micheal Schwerner. While they were returning back from inspecting a torched black church in Philadelphia, they were pulled over by Sheriff Cecil Price and two Carloads of Klansmen. They were killed and their bodies were not found until the president and the FBI got involved. 

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