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Andrew Goodman

Case from Philadelphia, MS dated Jun 21, 1964

Victim Details

Andrew Goodman

Male

White / Caucasian

Philadelphia

MS

1964-06-21

20

Andrew

Goodman

07/12/2026

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On a hot summer day in Mississippi, June 21, 1964, a 20-year-old white, Jewish civil rights worker from New York named Andrew Goodman was murdered. He, along with two other activists, James Chaney, a 21-year-old Black man from Mississippi, and Michael Schwerner, a 24-year-old white, Jewish man also from New York, disappeared after investigating the burning of a church in Neshoba County. The three men were in Mississippi as part of the 'Freedom Summer' campaign, an effort to register African Amer ...
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  • Case files and photos from 1964 "Mississippi Burning" murders of civil rights workers made public for first time
  • Mail Online: Convict in 1964 civil-rights deaths won't confess
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