PAC marking ’64 Mississippi murders anniversary with yahrzeit candles, actions targeting Trump Vigils will be held in four cities on the 52nd anniversary of the murders of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney.
3 slain civil rights workers to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were killed in Mississippi in 1964 during a voter registration drive of blacks.
From the Archive: Boys of Freedom Summer Murdered activists Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner would become symbols of Jewish involvement in the civil rights struggle. But in 1964, they barely caught JTA’s attention.
