student demonstration at Alcorn College, Mississippi, April 20, 1964

Charles E. Moore

Charles with his older brother Thomas

Henry Hezekiah Dee

Freedom Riders 1961

Bus firebombed.  Dan Blackenship, bottom left, after being beaten with a tire iron.

Freedom Riders John Lewis (future Congressman) and Jim Swerg after being beaten in Montgomery

Freedom Riders chose prison over paying fines.  They were sent to the notorious Parchman Farm in Mississippi.

Trying to desegregate a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. 1960

Medgar Evers

Medgar Evers' wife and children at his funeral

Louis Allen witnessed a sheriff shoot unarmed Herbert Lee

He was killed after he reported what he saw to the FBI

William Moore

1963: Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Denise McNair & Carol Robertson were killed when their church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama.

Addie Mae's sister, Susan, lost one of her eyes in the bombing

Birmingham 1963

Birmingham 1963

The March On Washington 1963

Andrew Goodman

Fannie Lou Hamer

Little Rock, Arkansas 1957: Vitriolic and violent mobs trailed the first nine black students to attend the previously segregated high school.

1959: Andy at 15 years old

Andy's yearbook picture

Andy had been an actor and appeared in some Off-Broadway productions.  He had recently switched his major to anthropology.  Paul Simon was a classmate of his at Queens College.

Andy, second from left, with his Dad and two brothers

The only generally circulated photograph of James Earl Chaney, aka J.E.

Michael "Mickey" Schwerner in his Meridian office

Mickey & Rita Schwerner

Mickey playing cards