Died For Freedom

ID: 5859 ~ Source: Photograph, Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, August 27th, 1964, The Mark Levy Collection, The Civil Rights Archives of the Queens College, Freedom Summer Text & Photo Archive, Queens College Special Collections and Archives, Mississippi. https://digital.lib.miamioh.edu/digital/collection/fstxt/id/1551/

This file appears in: Spokanites and the Civil Rights Movement, 1964-1965

Poster advertising a public-speaking event by Chaney’s mother following her son and his companions’ deaths, New Orleans, LA.

This file appears in: Spokanites and the Civil Rights Movement, 1964-1965

Spokanites and the Civil Rights Movement, 1964-1965

By Mikhail Hammer

Sponsored by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the 1964 Freedom Summer was set up as a voter registration drive amidst the tension of civil rights activism which had grown in frequency across the South. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and…