Note: Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were Jewish. This was downplayed in media reports, but noted in academic circles. Received by email:~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carolyn Goodman, the mother of one of three civil rights workers killed by the Ku Klux Klan in the “Mississippi Burning” case, died Friday. She was 91. Goodman, who lived to see a Klan leader convicted in her son’s death two years ago, died at her Manhattan home, her son Jonathan said. Goodman’s son Andrew was killed on June 21, 1964, in central Mississippi’ s Neshoba County, along with fellow civil rights workers Michael Schwerner and James Chaney.
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