Journalist and a small way, i want to hand of the civil rights movement. you are of the college generation that was going south. you tell a story of the book that i write at the greater fellowship us in washington, d.c. on june 22nd, 1964, to begin the orientation. the day before, three civil rights workers, james cheney, andrew goodman and michael schwerner had disappeared near philadelphia, mississippi. there is little doubt that they have been kidnapped and likely killed by white segregationists. dick hilar tried to reassure us by emphasizing that from the beginning, he had explicitly ruled out any mississippi time for us, judging into dangerous. but that seemed small comfort. i and others, i would guess, quietly wondered, we ll, is alabama all that much better? but no one openly voiced fears or second thoughts. and you i did, i did. this is part of a quaker initiative to send students into the south to try to
Andrew goodman and michael schwerner had disappeared near philadelphia, mississippi. there is little doubt that they have been kidnapped and likely killed by white segregationists. dick hilar tried to reassure us by emphasizing that from the beginning, he had explicitly ruled out any mississippi time for us, judging into dangerous. but that seemed small comfort. i and others, i would guess, quietly wondered, we ll, is alabama all that much better? but no one openly voiced fears or second thoughts. and you went through all of that. i did, i did. this is part of a quaker initiative to send students into the south to try to support civil rights but also to try to talk to people who were segregationists. this is very much the quaker spirit, talk about lines a difference, so it was also not just the summer and schwerner goodman and cheney disappeared, it was also the summer that the