Wis. Historical Society has papers of slain civil rights worker

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MADISON, Wis. - The state's Historical Society holds papers belonging to a one-time University of Wisconsin-Madison student from New York who was beaten and fatally shot 40 years ago for helping register black voters.

Andrew Goodman, 20, was killed June 21, 1964, one day after he arrived in Mississippi to spend the summer helping register black voters. Killed with him were two other civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, 24, and James Chaney, 21. <snip>

The crime was dramatized in the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning,"

Goodman's mother, Carolyn, donated the postcards and other papers concerning her son to the Wisconsin Historical Society in 1971, reference archivist Harry Miller said. <snip>

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