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 civil rights act of 1964 it was passed, in early july, and that was the law that provided public accommodations could not be segregated. so we spent a lot of time with our african american hosts and the very cities, carlsberg, birmingham, prince edwards county, testing data new civil rights act. and trying to see if it was being complied with, with those integrating groups in public accommodations. it was a summer and what you are supposed to be reaching out, but most secrest in us were in white power structures in the places that we were located wanted very little to do with us and found a stunning and even dangerous.
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