Wednesday, October 27, 1999
Miami breaks ground on memorial to activists
The Associated Press
OXFORD — Community leaders and Miami University officials broke ground Tuesday for a campus memorial to three civil rights activists who were trained at the school before they were murdered in Mississippi in 1964.
Arthur Miller, a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People who supported the civil rights volunteers, and Miami President James Garland spoke during the ceremony.
The amphitheater-style memorial will be available for use as an outdoor classroom. University officials said it will cost between $50,000 and $100,000 and should be finished in 2000.
The design features natural stone seating and a podium that will include a brief description of the 1964 events.
The memorial will honor Andrew Goodman, 20, James Chaney, 21, and Michael Schwerner, 21, who drove to the South to register blacks to vote. They vanished in Mississippi on June 21, 1964, and their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam on Aug. 4 of that year. The killings inspired the 1988 film Mississippi Burning.
Mr. Chaney, of Meridian, Miss., and Mr. Schwerner and Mr. Goodman, of New York, disappeared while on a trip to see a firebombed black church.
Ku Klux Klan members went to prison on federal conspiracy charges in the case.
About 800 civil rights volunteers were trained as part of the Mississippi Summer Project on the Western College for Women campus, now a part of Miami University. Western College in 1964 was a staging point for civil rights workers heading south.
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