Real Crime/Paranormal/Conspiracy Theories Book III

Freeman Summer Murders Part III

Legacy and honors

Individual

James Chaney

Andrew Goodman

Michael Schwerner

National

Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner wereposthumously awarded the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom byPresident Barack Obama.

Ohio

Miami University's now-defunct WesternProgram included historical lectures about Freedom Summer and theevents of the massacre.

There is a memorial on the Westerncampus of Miami University. It includes dozen of headlines about themurder, and plaques honoring and detailing the victims' life andwork.

Additionally, Miami's board of trusteesvoted unanimously in 2019 to name the lounges of 3 residence halls onthe Western campus after Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.

Michigan

At Cedar Springs High School in CedarSprings, Michigan, an outdoor memorial theater is dedicated to theFreedom Summer alums. The day of Goodman's murder is acknowledgedeach year on campus, and the clock tower of the campus library isdedicated to Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner.

Mississippi

A stone memorial at the Mt. NeboBaptist Church commemorates the three civil rights activists.

Several Mississippi State HistoricalMarkers have been erected relating to this incident:

Freedom Summer Murders (1989), nearMount Zion United Methodist Church in Neshoba County

Goodman, Cheney, and Schwerner MurderSite (2008, later vandalized and rededicated in 2013), at theintersection of MS 19 and County Road 515

Old Neshoba County Jail (2012), at thesite where the trio were held, on the north side of East MyrtleStreet, between Byrd and Center Avenues

New York

The Chaney-Goodman-Schwerner ClockTower of Queens College's Rosenthal Library was built in 1988 anddedicated in 1989. There is a photograph of the plaque on the QueensCollege website.

New York City named "FreedomPlace", a four-block stretch in Manhattan's Upper West Side,in honor of Chaney, Goodman, and Shwerner. A plaque on 70th Streetand Freedom Place (Riverside Drive) briefly tells their story. Theplaque was re-located in 1999 to the garden of HostellingInternational New York. Mrs. Goodman wanted the plaque to be in aplace visited by young people.

A stained glass window depicting thethree was placed in Sage Chapel at Cornell University in 1991.Schwerner was a Cornell graduate, as were Goodman's parents.