In the Freedom Summer of 1964, three young men, James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner went to Neshoba County Mississippi to register black voters. They went missing and were discovered 44 long days later buried in an earthen dam. August 4, 1964. Fifty years after these horrific events, which further spurred the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, we look at Carolyn Goodman –Andy Goodman’s mother, who was a social activist well before the murder of her son and continued living her life as an activist until her death at age 91.

Her memoir, My Mantelpiece: A Memoir of Survival and Social Justice, is a collaboration with author Brad Herzog and he joins Rosemary Manchester in conversation on those difficult times and this remarkable woman: Carolyn Goodman.

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