Topic: James Chaney
Emmett Till , Herbert Lee, Jimmie Lee Jackson and Mack Parker were a few of the dozens of young, black males murdered by the Klan and Southern police authorities. Reverend James Reeb, Viola Liuzzo, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were civil ...
Hate crimes are crimes committed against a specific race and ethnic group. The Federal Bureau of Investigation encountered a rising Ku Klux Klan , white supremacist movement in Louisiana. One of the men looking for him was Roy Bryant, the woman's husband ...
officials approve historical marker for infamous 1964 slayings of civil rights workersMississippi officials say a historical marker can be placed on a state highway near where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964.The state Department of Archives and History authorized ...
Reputed Klansman Set for Trial in 1964 Deaths of 2 Young Black Men in MississippiMore than 300 potential jurors have been summoned for the trial of a reputed Ku Klux Klansman accused of abducting, beating and dumping two young black men into ...