James Earl Chaney Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
James Earl "J.E." Chaney (May 30, 1943 – June 21, 1964), from Meridian, Mississippi, was one of three American civil rights workers who were murdered during Freedom Summer by members of the Ku Klux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi. The others were Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner from New York City.
Posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama 24 November 2014.
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The families of Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner wanted their sons buried alongside James Chaney but Mississippi law prohibited it. Chaney was buried alone in a segregated cemetery.
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He, along with Michael Schwerner & Andrew Goodman, were killed in their car on Rock Cut Road, right off Highway 19 in Neshoba County (near Philadelphia) in June 1964. They were members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Chaney was black and Goodman & Schwerner were white. The movie, Murder in Mississippi (1990), is based on this incident.
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