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A Life of Protest and Forgiveness |
| Published: August 21, 2007, 12:27 am |
| Tags: haberman clyde, civil rights movement, nyc, goodman carolyn |
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By CLYDE HABERMAN Published: August 21, 2007 Ben Chaney stood to the side watching mourners fill a grave with the New York soil that gave Carolyn Goodman her eternal blanket.It is Jewish custom for family and friends to bury the dead themselves, instead of leaving the task to hired hands. In life, Dr. Goodman was hardly an observant Jew. But on Sunday at Mount Judah Cemetery in Ridgewood, Queens, she exited this world in traditional style.Ben Chaney was there to say farewell. God put his angels here at the right moment, he said as clumps of earth thudded across the plain pine coffin.The angels were his mother, Fannie Lee Chaney, and Carolyn Goodman, women whose lives might never have converged had it not been for a brutal June night in 1964 in Neshoba County in Mississippi. Each lost a son that night. James Chaney, 21, and Andrew Goodman, 20, disappeared, along with Michael Schwerner, 24. Six weeks later, their bullet-scarred bodies were found in an earthen [ Full article ] |
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