Andrew Goodman - Portrayal in Culture

Portrayal in Culture

  • "Southern Justice" by Norman Rockwell
  • "Those Three are On My Mind" (Pete Seeger) was written to commemorate the three workers.
  • The song "He Was My Brother" from Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. by Simon & Garfunkel is dedicated to Andrew Goodman.
  • Meridian (1976), a novel by Alice Walker, dealt with issues of the civil rights era.
  • The case was the basis (loosely) of the feature film Mississippi Burning (1988). Goodman is portrayed in the film by actor Rick Zieff and simply identified as "Passenger" in the film credits.
  • It also inspired two made-for-TV movies: The 1975 two-part TV movie, Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan, which was based on Don Whitehead's book (Attack on Terror: The F.B.I. Against the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi) detailing the events a week before the assassinations and up to the conclusion of the Federal trial of the conspirators. Actor Andrew Parks portrayed "Steven Bronson," a fictionalized representation of Andrew Goodman. The second TV movie was Murder in Mississippi (1990), in which Andrew Goodman was portrayed by the actor Josh Charles.
  • In the Season 13 episode of the series Law & Order entitled "Chosen," defense lawyer Randy Dworkin (played by Peter Jacobson) prefaces a speech against affirmative action with the phrase, "Janeane Garofalo herself can storm into my office and tear down the framed photos of Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner, that I keep on the wall over my desk..."
  • Inspired Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky’s evening-long concert drama August 4, 1964, which was based on the tragic events of that date 44 years ago: the discovery in Mississippi of the bodies of three recently murdered young civil rights workers and a spurious “attack” on two American warships in the Gulf of Tonkin. Commissioned to commemorate the centennial of the birth of Lyndon B. Johnson, it premiered to excellent reviews.
  • In Episode 1 of Season 4 of the TV series Mad Men, Don Draper's date Bethany talks about Andrew Goodman : "The world is so dark right now". And: "Is that what it takes to make things change?"
  • Andrew Goodman is mentioned along with Schwerner and Cheney in "Song of Susannah." Book 6 of Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series.

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