James Earl Chaney

Death by Force

James Earl Chaney, a 21-year-old civil rights activist, was murdered on June 21, 1964, near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Chaney, along with fellow activists Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, was working with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to promote voter registration among African Americans in the South. On the day of their murder, the three men were investigating the burning of Mt. Zion Methodist Church, a site used for CORE's Freedom School.

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