Carolyn Goodman, mother of one of three civil rights workers killed in the Mississippi Burning case

[Ghost in the Machine]

Carolyn Goodman

NEW YORK (AP) - Carolyn Goodman, the mother of one of three civil rights workers killed by the Ku Klux Klan in the "Mississippi Burning" case, has died. She was 91.

Goodman, who died Friday, lived to see a Klan leader convicted in her son's death two years ago. She died at her Manhattan home, her son Jonathan said.

Goodman's son Andrew was killed June 21, 1964, in central Mississippi's Neshoba County, along with fellow civil rights workers Michael Schwerner and James Chaney.

Chaney, a black Mississippian, and Schwerner and Goodman, white New Yorkers, had been looking into the torching of a black church and helping to register black voters during what was known as Freedom Summer. They were abducted, shot to death and buried in an earthen dam.

The slayings shocked the nation, helped spur passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and were dramatized in the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning."

Chaney's mother, Fannie Lee Chaney, died May 22.

Both women testified in the 2005 trial of 80-year-old Edgar Ray Killen, who was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to three consecutive 20-year prison terms.

Carolyn Goodman was a psychologist who founded a program to help mothers leaving mental hospitals learn parenting skills. She set up the Andrew Goodman Foundation in 1966 to carry on her son's legacy.

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[Solly Mack]

1. RIP

[flamingyouth]

2. RIP

[dipsydoodle]

3. R.I.P.

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[WillyT]

4. Farewell... Rest In Peace...

O8)

[tabasco]

5. She raised a courageous and noble son.

Even in her grief I'm sure she was proud of him.

Rest in peace.

[roguevalley]

6. She raised a great child and I hope she doesn't take the days of

hope with her. God bless her in her eternal rest.

[goodgd_yall]

7. I'm glad she lived to see some justice.

I remember the crime. I was only 10, but at that young age, having lived in Mississippi for a few years, I was very aware of all the murders and other outrages committed on behalf of putting down the civil rights movement. May Ms. Goodman rest in peace.

[FogerRox]

8. Andrews cousin lives here in montclair NJ, she is active in the anti war movement

Good family, strong people.

[Ghost in the Machine]

9. Kick

[Ghost in the Machine]

12. and another..

[pitohui]

10. hope she has peace now, sounds like a great lady EOM

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[Ishoutandscream2]

11. Happy to see that the mother's of Goodman and Chaney

were able to see some form of justice. It wasn't enough, but it was something nevertheless.

RIP to both women. I can't imagine the pain they had to endure all those years.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

13. R.I.P. Carolyn Goodman.

[Ghost in the Machine]

14. Sunday Kick