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Mississippi
Burning

Civil rights verdict should be a catalyst for change.

LARRY BROOK

Deep South Jewish Voice

Philadelphia, Miss.
n June 1964, civil rights volunteer
Andrew Goodman sent a postcard
home to New York:
"Dear Mom and Dad, I have arrived
safely in Meridian, Miss. This is a won-
derful town and weather is fine, I wish
you were here. The people in this city
are wonderful and our reception was
very good. All my love, Andy."
Within hours, Goodman went miss-
ing in rural Mississippi, along with two
fellow activists, fellow Jew Andrew
Schwerner and James Chaney, in a case
that rocked the United States.
On June 21, exactly 41 years to the
day after the murders, Edgar Ray Killen

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was convicted of manslaughter in the
first murder trial brought by the state of
Mississippi in the case, made famous in
the 1988 movie Mississippi Burning.
On June 23, Circuit Court Judge
Marcus Gordon sentenced the 80-year-
old Killen to the maximum 60 years in
prison, effectively a life sentence for the
ailing Ku Klux Klansman.
The conviction and sentence partially
closed a chapter in American civil rights
history. They also reminded Americans
--- and the world — of a time when
Jews and blacks worked together for a
common goal.
Mississippi Klansmen stayed away
from the new trial because they felt any
organized protest would hurt Killen.
Still, Klansmen from Georgia and
Florida escorted Killen to the courthouse

Photo by Larry Brook, Deep South Jewish Voice

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RENOVATIONS

Carolyn Goodman, center, mother of slain civil rights activist Andrew Goodman, at a
2004 memorial service, held at Mt. Zion Methodist Church in Neshoba County, Miss.

