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...puritan America, and was responsible to the puritans-at first, the black, but now, the white. Their press had made him. Their financial support had underwritten his activities. Their power protected him from acts of Gothic violence like those that had cancelled the lives of Emmet Till, Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner, and the four girls in the bombed church at Birmingham. Made myopic by his ego and his mendacious assumptions about the nature of America, King had not yet perceived the motivation that had caused this support to be accorded him, nor the conditions under which it was given. Instead...
...lack of necessary dramatic background for would be candidates. Close physical resemblance to the slain figures is non-essential, since the three civil rights workers looked different in several photographs anyway, but Ritchie is searching for approximate look-alikes in general appearance to the principal characters-Andy Goodman, Mickey Schwerner (who tended toward overweight), and Rita Schwerner (who appeared small and spindly). He is also anxious to interview any black students from south of the Mason-Dixon line, since there are many roles to be cast for young Mississippi blacks, including the part of the lead character, James Chancey, Ritchie...
...such victories were no longer enough. After Farmer left CORE in 1966, he was dismayed to see his organization, which had been militantly for integration, suddenly turn toward separatism. Committed to the notion of Black Power, it limited the role of white members-even though white CORE Volunteers Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman had given their lives in Mississippi only a year earlier. To the new radical leaders, Farmer's type of militancy was not aggressive enough for the times. Another disappointment came in 1966, when Farmer was asked by the Johnson Administration to head a literacy program funded...
...Hebrew religious tradition?though less well-off Jews sometimes feel far too threatened to share such altruistic sentiments. Jewish philanthropists were among the whites who helped Negro leaders establish the N.A.A.C.P. and the Urban League. The honor roll of CORE and S.N.C.C. martyrs includes the names of Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, two Northern Jews who were assassinated by whites in Mississippi on June...
...heard of the quantum theory, etc., etc." Fifteen black people were killed in the state that year as a result of S.N.C.C. activity, Lester adds, but the only murdered black mentioned in the press was James Chancy, who was killed with white Civil Rights Workers Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner...