James Chaney, American civil rights activist (born 1943)

James Chaney

American activist and KKK murder victim (1943–1964)

James Earl Chaney was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan on June 21, 1964. The others were Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner from…