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Carolyn Goodman | |
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| Born | Carolyn Elizabeth Drucker October 6, 1915 |
| Died | August 17, 2007 (aged 91) |
| Alma mater | Cornell University City University of New York Teachers College, Columbia University (EdD) |
| Children | Andrew Goodman |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Clinical psychology, civil rights activism |
| Institutions | Andrew Goodman Foundation |
| Thesis | A study of psychological factors in different fertility and family planning types (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | Arleen Otto |
| Other academic advisors | Morton Deutsch |
Carolyn Elizabeth Goodman (née Drucker; October 6, 1915 – August 17, 2007) was an American clinical psychologist who became a prominent civil rights advocate after her son, Andrew Goodman and two other civil rights workers, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964.
Politically active until age 90, Goodman came to wide public attention again in 2005. Traveling to Philadelphia, Mississippi, she testified at the murder trial of Edgar Ray Killen, a former Klan leader recently indicted in the case. On June 21, 2005, the 41st anniversary of the killings, a jury acquitted Killen of murder but found him guilty of manslaughter in the deaths of Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner.