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The Indypendent (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Emmy-winning filmmaker Micki Dickoff was 17 in 1964, the year Freedom Summer sent people south to register African-American voters. “I wanted to go but my father wouldn’t let me,” Dickoff told a packed audience at the New York premiere of NESHOBA, a gripping 90-minute documentary about the murders of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in Neshoba...
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ART FOR A CHANGE (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
... same year the Ku Klux Klan kidnapped, tortured, and murdered three Freedom Summer volunteers - James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman. From 1964-65 Cieciorka also served as a field secretary in Mississippi and Arkansas for the (SNCC - pronounced "snick"), one of the primary civil rights organizations of the day.Hand - Frank Cieciorka. Woodcut. 1965. "One of the most striking...
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Gratuitous Violins (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
This is in memory of Michael Schwerner , James Chaney and Andrew Goodman , two Jews and a black man who were murdered in 1964 simply for trying to ensure that all Americans had equal rights and equal protection under the law. I've been thinking about them this week in light of Barack Obama's election to be our next president. All three showed great courage. Schwerner and Goodman could...
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i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
James Chaney your body exploded in pain, And the beating they gave you is pounding my brain. And they murdered much more with their dark bloody chains. And the body of pity lies bleeding. * In 1964, just forty-four years ago and within the lifetime and memory of not only myself but many of my readers, James Chaney, a 21-year-old black man from Meridian, Mississippi; Andrew...
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
... effort put money into civil-rights groups that worked on voter registration. Young people such as James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman went into small black towns in the South and challenged the white segregationist political structure by encouraging blacks to defy intimidation by racist sheriffs, employers and banks and fill out a voter registration card.Those three...
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Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
These three men were among those who died trying to make today possible. On June 21, 1964, Neshoba County, Mississippi law enforcement officials and Ku Klux Klansmen killed Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman because they were going to help black men and women register to vote. Today, 44 years after they were murdered, a black man is on the verge of being elected president....
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Funny blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
... civil rights worker killed May 12, 1967, when police fired on demonstrators in Jackson, Miss. 4 James Chaney–A civil rights worker abducted and shot at point-blank range June 21, 1964, by Ku Klux Klan members in Philadelphia, Miss. 5 Addie Mae Collins– A young schoolchild murdered Sept. 15, 1963, in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. 6 Vernon Dahmer–...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
... Schwerner, whose mother was a biology teacher at New Rochelle High School, was killed along with James Chaney and Andrew Goodman as part of the Freedom Summer when they had gone to Mississippi to help register black voters. But these tragic events were not as much on our radar as Eddie, who single-handedly started us on the road to having huge antennae for racial inequality, for the...
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Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
... Pines State Beach when they announced on the radio that the authorities had found the bodies of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwermer; I remember it as distinctly as I remember when JFK was shot. The announcer called them "civil rights workers" but I didn't know what a civil rights worker was. I thought he was calling them "civil service workers" which, to my nine year-old...
