Andrew Goodman

 Andrew Goodman

Andrew Goodman was a Civil Rights Activist who protested in 1964 against racism from racists who wanted to keep segregation. After the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Legislation that banned segregation in public places, African Americans, Caucasians, and minorities kept fighting against other measures of racism.

One such measure that was still existing was poll taxes and literacy tests against African Americans in 1964. The literacy tests were meant to discourage and prevent African Americans from voting. The poll tax was made to charge money for the right to vote and prevent African Americans from voting. 

MLK led Civil Rights Activists against literacy tests and poll taxes at the voting booths. This led to the ratification of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that ended poll taxes and literacy tests. Andrew Goodman was one of the college aged Civil Rights Activists who was Caucasian and fought against racism in the 1960s. 

Goodman was murdered for protesting against racism. Racist African Americans who were FBI agents attempted to infiltrate Civil Rights groups and foment division due to the progress of the Civil Rights Movement under MLK. Goodman was Caucasian yet not a racist. Hoover and the FBI probably attempted to create African American infiltrators who appeared to be "common men" yet were probably from trust fund backgrounds. Civil Rights Activists kept describing the need for unity, fraternity, and empathy. MLK was uniting individuals of different races to battle racism and segregation while Hoover and the FBI were trying to foment racism against pacifist African Americans, instigate violence, and lead to racism against Caucasians from racist African Americans. Racist African Americans used racist Caucasians as examples of why pacifist African Americans needed to loot and riot. Pacifist African Americans resisted the lies of Carmichael and H. Rap Brown and kept practicing civil disobedience. The Civil Rights Movement both shattered segregation in the 1960s and also prevented a race war that Hoover, Nixon, Sullivan, Wallace, and the FBI wanted. That is why Civil Rights can not be equated falsely to marxism.