Editing Andrew Goodman (activist) (section)

==Early life and beginnings of activism==
Andrew Goodman was born on November 23, 1943, in [[New York City]], the second of three boys born to Robert, a writer and civil engineer, and [[Carolyn Goodman (psychologist)|Carolyn Goodman]], a psychologist and social activist.<ref name="AGF">{{cite web |title=Historical Archives |url=https://andrewgoodman.org/historical-archives/ |website=Andrew Goodman Foundation |access-date=19 March 2023}}</ref> He grew up in the city's [[Upper East Side]].<ref name="Biography.com">{{cite web |title=Andrew Goodman Biography |url=https://www.biography.com/people/andrew-goodman |website=Biography.com |publisher=A&E Television Networks |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027194643/https://www.biography.com/people/andrew-goodman |access-date=19 March 2023|archive-date=October 27, 2018 }}</ref> Goodman was [[Jewish]], like fellow civil rights activist [[Michael Schwerner]], alongside whom Goodman would be murdered.<ref name="Jewish">{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/news/1.626037|title=Murdered Jewish Civil Rights Workers to Receive Presidential Medal|last=Staff writers|date=12 November 2014|newspaper=[[Haaretz]]}}</ref> Goodman's neighborhood was a racially-mixed community of white, black, and Hispanic families.<ref name="Carolyn Goodman biography">{{cite web |last1=Goodman |first1=Carolyn |title=Biography of Andrew Goodman (1943-1964) |url=https://andrewgoodman.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2000-04-AG-long-biography.pdf |website=Andrew Goodman Foundation |access-date=19 March 2023}}</ref>

The Goodman family was involved in intellectual and socially progressive activism and were devoted to [[social justice]]. His mother Carolyn was a lifelong labor activist. In her youth, she helped farm workers to organize and was active in community efforts to support the [[Republican faction (Spanish Civil War)|Republican faction]] during the [[Spanish Civil War]] in the 1930s.<ref name="JWA">{{cite news |last1=Rosenbaum |first1=Judith |title=Remembering Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney |url=https://jwa.org/blog/goodman-schwerner-chaney |access-date=19 March 2023 |publisher=[[Jewish Women's Archive]] |date=2009-08-04}}</ref>

Andrew followed his parents' activist bent from a young age. At the age of 14, Goodman traveled to [[Washington, D.C.]], to participate in the [[Youth March for Integrated Schools (1958)|1958 Youth March for Integrated Schools]]. During the march, approximately 10,000 high school age students promoted the [[Desegregation in the United States|desegregation]] of American public schools after the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]]'s [[Brown v. Board of Education]] landmark decision in 1954 struck down the constitutionality of racial segregation in public schools. The next year, Goodman and a friend went to West Virginia to live in a coal mining town and sought to advocate to the governor over the poor working conditions there. At 17, Goodman traveled to Western Europe to understand the impact of largescale agribusiness on small farmers.<ref name="Carolyn Goodman biography" /> Goodman also participated in a 1960 protest at a New York [[F. W. Woolworth Company|Woolworth's]] as part of the [[sit-in movement]] protesting the segregationist policies of the [[variety store|five-and-dime store]].<ref name="Biography.com" />

In 1961, Goodman graduated high school from the progressive [[Walden School (New York City)|Walden School]], where he had attended from the age of 3. At Walden, he was involved in the theater program. He also arranged for [[Brooklyn Dodger]] [[Jackie Robinson]], a neighbor of his and the first African-American to play in [[Major League Baseball]], to speak at the school.<ref name="Carolyn Goodman biography" /> After Walden, Goodman enrolled the Honors Program at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] and considered a drama major, but withdrew after one semester after falling ill with pneumonia. He returned to New York City to improve his health and was selected for a role in the [[Off-Broadway]] play ''The Chief Thing'' by Russian dramatist [[Nikolaí Evreninov]].<ref name="AGF" />

Goodman then enrolled at [[Queens College, New York City]], and majored in anthropology.<ref name="AGF" /> At Queens, he was a friend and classmate of [[Paul Simon]]. He developed an interest in poetry. One of his poems, "A Corollary to a Poem by [[A. E. Housman]]", was posthumously discovered by his college professor [[Mary Doyle Curran]] and published in the ''Massachusetts Review'' and the ''New York Times''.<ref>{{cite news |title='What Disaster . . .' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/28/archives/what-disaster-.html |work=The New York Times |date=28 December 1964}}</ref> With Goodman's brief acting experience, he originally planned to study drama but switched to anthropology. Goodman's growing interest in anthropology seemed to parallel his increasing political seriousness.<ref name="AGF" /> Throughout college, Goodman acted with an Off-Broadway repertory company.<ref name="Carolyn Goodman biography" />