Mickey Schwerner was a Jewish civil rights activist who was married to a women named Rita who worked for the National CORE. He got into activism for the same reason anyone who lived during that time got into it, because it was time for change! Him and his wife could not stop overlooking the racial violence that loomed over their everyday life. He was eventually kilt by the Klu Klux Klan for the civil rights work that they were achieving along with other men. The main reason they were kilt was because they registered African American voters. I would like to know if in the end he thought his efforts made an impact that he thought was worth his life. I would ask him how he held such passion to uplift people which ultimately ended in his death. These 3 men eventually received the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barrack Obama.
Resource-Michael Schwerner Biography, life, interesting facts. Famous Birthdays By SunSigns.Org. (n.d.). Retrieved March 25, 2022, from https://www.sunsigns.org/famousbirthdays/d/profile/michael-schwerner/
Andy Goodman was the second out of the three to have been kilt by the Ku Klux Klan. He became an activist because he grew up in a household where his parents supported the cause. He volunteered in the Freedom Summer program which is why he was able to go to Mississippi with his supportive brothers. He was kilt at a young age so he did not marry or have any children. I think it is also relevant to mention that he was not African American. He was a Jewish American.
Resource-Michael Schwerner Biography, life, interesting facts. Famous Birthdays By SunSigns.Org. Retrieved March 25, 2022, from https://www.sunsigns.org/famousbirthdays/d/profile/michael-schwerner/
James Chaney was kilt with Andy and Mickey by the Klu Klux Klan. He had four siblings and grew up going to a Catholic School until the age of fifteen which is when he went to High School. James was a member of the Congress of Racial Equality, and also was part of the Freedom Ride. He was only twenty-one when he passed away so he did not marry or have any children.
Resource-Signs, S. James Chaney biography, life, interesting facts. Famous Birthdays By SunSigns.Org. Retrieved March 25, 2022, from https://www.sunsigns.org/famousbirthdays/d/profile/james-chaney/
I could not see myself just standing by and watching so many other people fight for something so meaningful and not jumping in to help. I do not want to die either, so I would probably chose a place to help where I felt the safest, which I know sounds horrible, but if it came down to it and I was passionate enough I would’ve joined the Freedom Ride. So I am a little on the fence with this question, but in the end I would join in where things get dangerous.
I would have the same questions for all three of these men. I would ask if they felt like their sacrifice was worth it. I am sure every one of them would say yes, because it pushed the movement forward faster than before. I would also like an in-depth personal view of why they all joined the movement rather than reading what other people have wrote.
