Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights MovementThe story of a group of Jewish women who risked their bodies to fight racism Many people today know that the 1964 murder in Mississippi of two Jewish men Mickey Schwerner and Andrew Goodman and their Black colleague, James Chaney, marked one of the most wrenching episodes of the civil rights movement. Yet very few realize that Andrew Goodman had been in Mississippi for one day when he was killed; Rita Schwerner, Mickey's wife, had been organizing in