Title: My mantelpiece
Description: Carolyn Goodman's life was punctuated by tragedy, including a brother's premature death, childhood molestation, a father's suicide, and a son's infamous murder. But hers is foremost a tale of survival, of turning personal anguish into social conscience. When her twenty-year-old son, Andy, was one of three civil rights volunteers to disappear in Mississippi in the summer of 1964, the story galvanized the nation. A half century after the Mississippi murders, this is the first time that a victims family member has expounded about the experience and the myriad emotions from guilt to resolve that it spawned. More than simply a memoir, My Mantelpiece is the story of a century's seminal progressive movements seen through the lens of a remarkable woman's singular journey
Subjects: Women political activists, Human rights, History, Social justice, Leadership, Social conditions, Civil rights workers, Biography, Women, Goodman, andrew, 1943-1964, Women, political activity, Women, social conditions
Places: Mississippi
People: Carolyn Goodman (1915-2007), Andrew Goodman (1943-1964)
Time periods: 20th century