Editing Andrew Goodman (activist) (section)

==Participation in Freedom Summer==
{{Blockquote|The senators could not persist in this polite debate over the future dignity of a human race if the white Northerners were not so shockingly apathetic.|Andrew Goodman, in a 1964 school paper<ref name="Frontline">{{cite web |title=Andrew Goodman |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interactive/unresolved/cases/andrew-goodman |website=Frontline |publisher=[[PBS]] |access-date=20 March 2023}}</ref>}}
In the spring of 1964, his junior year at Queens College, Goodman attended a talk by Mississippi civil rights activists [[Aaron Henry (politician)|Aaron Henry]], head of the state's [[NAACP]] branch, and [[Fannie Lou Hamer]]. Henry and Hamer were recruiting students under the age of 21, who with the permission of their parents, would participate in the [[Freedom Summer]] project to help register African-Americans to vote in Mississippi and to set up [[Freedom Schools]].<ref name="Carolyn Goodman biography" />

In June 1964, Goodman left New York to teach at a [[Congress of Racial Equality]] (CORE) training session for Freedom Summer volunteers at the [[Western College for Women]] (now part of [[Miami University]]) in [[Oxford, Ohio]]. In Ohio, Goodman met fellow New Yorker 24 year old [[Michael Schwerner]], an experienced volunteer with CORE, and 21 year old [[James Chaney]], a CORE activist in Mississippi. The three trained hundreds of Freedom Summer volunteers, mostly students, how to navigate the racism and violence they would encounter in Mississippi. At the training, Schwerner learned that one of the Freedom Schools in Mississippi that he had helped to organize at the Mount Zion Methodist Church in [[Philadelphia, Mississippi|Philadelphia]] had been burned down by the [[Ku Klux Klan]] (KKK). To investigate, the three men left Ohio for Mississippi by car on June 20.<ref name="LA Times">{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-doj-civil-rights-20160621-snap-story.html|title=They dared to register blacks to vote, and the KKK killed them: A 52-year-old case is closed — unsolved|last=Kaleem|first=Jaweed|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=June 21, 2016|access-date=2023-03-20}}</ref>