May 23
Fannie Lee Chaney Dies
Posted by Slobokan @ 14:08 · 105 words · print
Fannie Lee Chaney, the mother of one of the three civil-rights workers killed in the "Mississippi Burning" case in 1964, has died, her son said Wednesday. She had lived to see a reputed Klan leader convicted two years ago in the young men's deaths.
Ben Chaney said Wednesday from his mother's home in Willingboro, N.J., that funeral arrangements were pending and information would be released later.
His older brother James Chaney was killed on June 21, 1964, in central Mississippi's Neshoba County, along with fellow civil rights workers Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman.
The case was the basis of the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning."
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