The Nation, August 8th, 1994
On the evening of June 21, Mount Zion Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Mississippi, offered a memorial service for James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman. Thirty years before, the three civil rights workers were murdered after visiting the burned ruins of the same church. I was in Jackson at that time, two hours west, newly arrived from Manhattan, where Schwerner had trained me and others in tenant organizing at the offices of the Congress of Racial Equality. It was the beginning of "Freedom Summer," a daring project to bring national attention and hence indispensable protection t...
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