Slain Civil Rights Worker Remembered

NPR | By Brian Mann

Published June 22, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

Andrew Goodman, one of the three civil rights activists slain in Mississippi, spent summers with his family in New York's Adirondack Mountains. People in the village of Tupper Lake, N.Y., say Goodman should be remembered as a hero.

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