SFPS Board Member, David Goodyear, Recognized by his Alma mater for his Efforts During Freedom Summer

​http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/june2014/articles/features/freedomsummer/freedomsummer.html / Reed magazine​ / Volume 93, No. 2: June 2014 / Looking Back at Freedom Summer/- Fifty years on, Reedies reflect on the Summer of ’64 / By Nisma Elias ’12 / It was a scorching August night, and there was tension in the air. David Goodyear ’67 and two other civil-rights workers had stopped to buy cokes at a Texaco station in the little town of Laurel, Mississippi. They had traveled to this remote part of the state to register black voters for the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, a movement that triggered a furious backlash from conservative whites. Days before, the dead bodies of three civil-rights workers had been discovered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, less than 100 miles to the north, beaten and shot by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). While they quenched their thirst, a car pulled up. Men got out brandishing clubs. The gas station locked its doors and turned out its lights, and Goodyear knew he and his friends were in trouble . . .