James Foreman and Andrew Goodman

Freedom Summer volunteers were divided into two groups, the first of which began training on June 13, 1964, in preparation to help register Black voters in Mississippi. On June 21, the second group, mostly teachers and librarians, prepared to open and teach at Freedom Schools and community centers in the South. All accepted volunteers were told to bring $150 for the training, $500 for bail, and three publicity photos for publication in case something happened to them. One of those volunteers was Andrew Goodman (dark shirt), a 20-year-old college student from New York City, who would later be murdered in Mississippi. Goodman and other volunteers attended self-defense training with James “Jim” Forman (left, white shirt), the Executive Secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Forman would later participate in the Selma to Montgomery Marches in 1965.