Fannie Lee Chaney

Fannie Lee Chaney

Fannie Lee Chaney (September 4, 1921 – May 22, 2007) [Social Security Death Index [database on-line] . Accessed on http://www.ancestry.com] was an American baker turned civil rights activist after her son James Chaney was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan during the 1964 Freedom Summer rides in Mississippi.

After her son’s murder, Mrs. Chaney sued five restaurants in Meridian for racial discrimination. She was fired from her job and could not find other work. Crosses were burned on her lawn, and a firebomb intended for her family’s house destroyed that of a neighbor. She moved to New York City, finding work at a nursing home. After 30 years, she retired and moved to New Jersey.

In 2005 she testified for the State of Mississippi in the murder case against Edgar Ray Killen, one of her son's killers. Killen was cleared of murder by the jury, but convicted of manslaughter and given a 60 years sentence, which he is serving.

Death

Fannie Chaney died in Willingboro, New Jersey in May 2007 of undisclosed causes, aged 84.Martin, Douglas (May 24, 2007). Fannie Lee Chaney, 84, Mother of Slain Civil Rights Worker, Is Dead. "New York Times"] Three months later, Carolyn Goodman, the mother of Andrew Goodman, who was killed with Chaney, also died.

References

External links

* [http://mississippiburning.org/ How the Mississippi Burning Case Was Reopened]
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