in 1966, andrew’s parents, robert , carolyn goodman started andrew goodman foundation carry on spirit , purpose of son’s life. after death of robert goodman in 1969, carolyn continued work of foundation, focusing on projects reverse march mississippi , 25th anniversary memorial. memorial, took place @ st. john divine church in nyc, attended 10,000 people , presided governor mario cuomo, maya angelou, peter seeger, aaron henry, harry belafonte, robert kennedy jr., , others closely associated civil rights movement. after carolyn’s death in august 2007, david goodman, andrew’s younger brother, , sylvia golbin goodman, david’s wife, took work of foundation.
for 50 years, organization private foundation acting in public interest. eyes set on future, board of trustees of andrew goodman foundation elected turn organization public charity in 2012. in 2014, on fiftieth anniversary of murders, foundation officially launched vote everywhere, program designed support college students continuing work of freedom summer.
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in 2002, 2,176-foot peak in adirondack mountains town of tupper lake, new york, officially named goodman mountain in goodman s memory. goodman s family had spent summers there 30 years.
the walden school, in manhattan, named middle , upper school building in goodman s memory. trevor day school occupies building , has maintained building s name andrew goodman building .
goodman, along chaney , schwerner, received posthumous presidential medal of freedom president barack obama in 2014.
^ sacrifice in mississippi remembered on new york mountain . new york times. october 6, 2002.
^ trevor day school nyc | manhattan private school tour . www.trevor.org. retrieved 2017-04-18.
^ president obama names recipients of presidential medal of freedom . whitehouse.gov.
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