Carolyn Goodman (psychologist), Date of Birth, Date of Death

Carolyn Goodman (psychologist)

American clinical psychologist and civil rights advocate

Date of Birth: 06-Oct-1915

Date of Death: 17-Aug-2007

Profession: psychologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Carolyn Elizabeth Goodman (née Drucker; October 6, 1915 – August 17, 2007) was a clinical psychologist who became a prominent civil rights advocate after her son, Andrew Goodman and two other civil rights workers, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964. Politically active until age 90, Goodman came to wide public attention again in 2005.
Traveling to Philadelphia, Mississippi, she testified at the murder trial of Edgar Ray Killen, a former Klan leader recently indicted in the case.
On June 21, 2005, the 41st anniversary of the killings, a jury acquitted Killen of murder but found him guilty of manslaughter in the deaths of Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner.