James Chaney James Chaney was an African-American civil rights activist from the United States. Chaney, along with Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi for educating rural African-Americans about their voting rights. ==Childhood and Education== James Earl Chaney was born in Meridian, Mississippi, on May 30, 1943. He was the first born son of Ben Chaney and Fannie Lee. CORE. (2014). Chaney, Goodwin, and Schwerner - James Earl Chaney. Congress of Racial Equality, http://www.core-online.org/History/chaney.htm JECF, 2017 Ben worked as a plasterer and Fannie worked as a domestic servant. They couple produced four more children before Ben left the family while the young Chaney was in high school.Linder, …show more content…
The U.S. Justice Department faced issues bringing charges up on 19 men, including Rainey and Price, from Mississippi’s Federal Judge William Harold Cox. After a nasty and heated trial, the jury convicted seven defendants, including Price, Bowers, Roberts, and others, on October 20, 1967. Most served less than 10 years for their crimes with Price only serving four of his given six years. On January 6, 2005, after the October 6, 2004, march in support of prosecuting Edgar Ray Killen, the State of Mississippi charged Killen with murder of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwermer. He was sentenced in June 2005 to three 20-year jail terms.Linder, 2016 ==References== ===Bibliography=== JECF. (2017). James Earl Chaney (1943 - 1964). The James Earl Chaney Foundation. http://www.jecf.org/History.htm Linder, D. O. (2014). Biography of James Chaney. University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/PROJECTS/FTRIALS/price&bowers/Chaney.htm Linder, D. O. (2016, June ). The Mississippi Burning Trial (U. S. Vs. Price et al.). University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/PROJECTS/FTRIALS/price&bowers/Account.html ===Footnotes=== [[Category: African