Andrew Goodman
American civil rights activist
Born on: November 23, 1943Died on: June 21, 1964
Aged: 20 years 211 days (246 months)
Gender: Male
Nationality: American
Birth Sign: Sagittarius
Andrew Goodman was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan in 1964.
Goodman was a volunteer for the Freedom Summer campaign that sought to register African Americans to vote in Mississippi and to set up Freedom Schools for black Southerners.
His two fellow activists, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, worked for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).
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