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James Chaney

James Earl Chaney was a civil rights worker who was murdered (along with Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman) by members of the Ku Klux Klan in 1964. Chaney's murder occurred near the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi, Mississippi, where Chaney was undertaking field work for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).

Cheney was born on May 30, 1943, in the town of Meridian, Mississippi. He had joined the Congress of Racial Equality in 1963, and was aged twenty-one when he was killed.

The circumstances surrounding the death of the three activists were the subject of the film Mississippi Burning.


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