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James Chaney

James Chaney

James Earl Chaney was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality civil rights workers killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan on June 21, 1964. The others were Andrew Goodman and... Wikipedia
Born: May 30, 1943, Meridian, MS
Assassinated: June 21, 1964, Philadelphia, MS
Award: Presidential Medal of Freedom (posthumous, 2014)
James Earl Chaney (May 30, 1943 – June 21, 1964) was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) civil rights ...
On June 21, 1964, three young men disappeared near the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi. Michael (Mickey) Schwerner and James Chaney worked for the ...
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of Mississippi Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Chaney had begun volunteer work at the new CORE office in Meridian in Cotober, 1963, after a girlfriend introduced Chaney to Matt Suarez, the office's first ...
On June 21, 1964, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman were tortured and murdered by the KKK with help from the deputy sheriff near ...
The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders, or the Mississippi ...
On the night of June 21, 1964, civil right workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner disappeared in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
In June of 1964, three Civil Rights Workers, one Black, Catholic, Mississippian and two White, Jewish New Yorkers, were reported missing in Mississippi. No one ...
Jun 21, 2023 · 740 likes, 18 comments - officialmlking3 on June 21, 2023: "Today, I remember James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, ...
Dec 31, 2020 · I went to James Chaney's grave last weekend. His tall tombstone faces a rural road south of Meridian that bends sharply just before the ...