Earlier today on Twitter, a Black Catholic priest commemorated the Freedom Summer murders. "I hate to think it would take something as devastating as taking lives or Trayvon Martin for young people to speak up and say, 'I have a voice,' " she said. She says she even occasionally saw the man accused of murdering her father, former Sheriff Lawrence Rainey. All Rights Reserved. She couldnt miss someone she never knew. The injuries, besides the bullet holes, it was said "could only occur in a high speed airplane crash!" Acting out of his deep belief in Human Rights, James Earl Chaney was a Black American who sacrificed his life to educate the poor, the disenfranchised in the procedures of our democratic system . View Source Share Save to Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Memorials Region North America USA Mississippi The words on his headstone serve as a reminder of how she, too, wishes to live: "There are those who are alive, yet will never live. The message resonated with Ben, who was now a young man. The body of James Chaney was a "mangled mass". Find the obituary of James "Jim" Eldridge Chaney Jr. (1938 - 2021) from Bridgeville, DE. Leave your condolences to the family on this memorial page or send flowers to show you care. Mr. Chaney, a black from Meridian, Miss., and two white civil rights workers from the North, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, disappeared in Neshoba County on June 21, 1964, at the onset of a summer-long drive by an umbrella group of civil rights organizations to register black Mississippians to vote. Its not as easy for her as it once wasin 2010, McDonald lost her right leg to a bacterial infection. Nineteen men were eventually arrested in the deaths of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner. I never killed anyone, he says calmly. So I visited Tim Moores office, just down the hall. For me to live in hate would be to carry on the very thing that took him out of the world., Ben says he has changed, too. But Ben never found his footing at Walden. But few people know what happened afterward to the grieving boy in the photos. Chaney, who coached the Lightning from 2015 until his resignation on Dec. 12, will reunite with former North Fort. the daughter of Georgia Rush, the woman . in ePub, .mobi & .pdf formats. Word about Mount Zions destruction traveled to a Freedom Summer training Schwerner was helping conduct at Western College for Women, in Ohio (now Miami University). Ben Chaney trudges through the snow in a wind-swept cemetery in Meridian, Mississippi, until he finally reaches the place. It was Price who pulled up behind the three civil-rights workers, in his patrol car. He was a clerk in the prison library where he consumed books such as Malcolm Xs autobiography, George Orwells Animal Farm and various biographies. Getty Images But Ben never found. Ben sat on his front porch that afternoon and waited for his brother to return. NEW Abbott And Costello: Their Lives And Legacy - Featuring Interviews With Chris Costello (Daughter Of Lou Costello) And Ron . The 1964 FBI flier for the missing civil rights students Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner. They werentbut Klan members still exacted violence on the churchs parishioners. James Chaney said he's the type of guy who knows when his time is up. In 1998, Ben Chaney established the James Earl Chaney Foundation in his older brother's honor, to promote the work of civil rights and social justice. Fannie Lee Chaney, a $28-a-week bakery worker who became a target of racial hatred herself after her son James Chaney and two other civil rights workers were killed by the Ku Klux . The collection is being stored in three catalog records: Series 2870 houses the attorney general's research files, Series 2902 houses the FBI memos and Series 2903 houses the photographs. Rare Interview With Angela Lewis, Daughter Of James Chaney. For many years, she felt hurt and anger toward her father because he never came to see her before his death, she said. JACKSON, Miss. Hes inclined to assume that the legacy of the murders doesnt affect the white population, which makes up about 60 percent of the county, as much as it does the Black folks. The 50-year-old man who stands before me is stoic, wary; his face betrays no emotion as he looks at his brothers bullet-pocked headstone. It was likely that the experience James Chaney gained while working in Dorbacker's hotel helped bring him to Washington, D.C., sometime between the summer of 1860 and his enlistment in the Union army in the summer of 1863. Six decades ago, the Klan ambushed Black churchgoers here as they left a meeting. They took him to demonstrations and Ben was even arrested twice. son. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. Price pulled up beside them. It was like going to a foreign land, he says. Its perfectly possible to come to Philadelphia, Mississippi, without ever encountering this history. Theyre in church cemeteries and in the stories passed downthe ghosts that appear to haunt only some of us. Listen aint you heard the news I sat at the kitchen counter as he washed dishes. {edtoal.School pathologbt.t. But she does it anyway. An entire room on the first floor is dedicated to the country-music star and Philadelphia native Marty Stuart. Later, the FBI would come to believe that the Klan had burned Mount Zion to lure Schwerner back. James Chaney left behind an infant daughter, Angela, in 1964. But his brother sensed that people were out to get him. So did James Chaney, a Black CORE staffer and native of Meridian whod been working with Schwerner that summer. The cause of death was T.B. Shortly after she married at 18, rumors swirled that Janet Jackson had a secret daughter she had given away. MERIDIAN This is what the little girl inside Angela Lewis still begs for: To sit on her daddy's lap when she's skinned her elbow. He is the owner of the hotel room prison in which Joe Doucett is held captive. Crosses were burned on her lawn, and a firebomb intended for her familys house destroyed that of a neighbor. That led to the June 2005 conviction of Edgar Ray Killen, a 1960s Ku Klux Klan leader and Baptist minister, on manslaughter charges. By Billy Watkins Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid. I wanted to vent my hatred and my anger on white folks. She learned to love him and follow in his footsteps JACKSON, Miss. Ben wants the men responsible for his brothers death to be charged with murder. I guess its a thing guys just dont talk about.. He was a security guard at a mall near her home. We turned down Road 747, where a white sign at the highway intersection advertises Mount Zion, just about two or so miles down this country road. The Life of Chaney. James Chaney was born about 1931, the son of Eual and Cruse. On the way there, the man told Ben the trips true purpose: They would be picking up a shipment of guns in Florida to transport them to a Black Liberation Army unit in Ohio. Angela Lewis, daughter of James Earl Chaney, Ben maintains that the charge was not justified. In 1967 prosecutors managed to convict seven of the men for conspiring to deny the civil rights of Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman. Nonviolence seemed naive to them. Thank you for supporting The Atlantic. 1'057 !l~ EXAMINATIO!I RU'OR"l' 0'1 'l'BE OODY OF JAMSS CHANEY Report en inspection or autopsied bod,y or JA! But Ben keeps close to Mississippi. If I dont move fast enough, hes already moved on. According to FBI documents, Deputy Sheriff Cecil Ray Price, a Klansman, spotted their station wagon while he was driving in the opposite direction; he turned around and began following it. She says she never was tempted to say anything to him. The Klan had been monitoring 24-year-old Michael Schwerner, a Jewish civil-rights worker originally from New York who was on staff at the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), one of the civil-rights groups that had come together as the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) to organize Freedom Summer. Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman arrived in Philadelphia on June 21, five days after the fire, to interview community members. In 2005, an eighth Klansman, Edgar Ray Killen, who had been released as a result of a hung jury in the federal trial, was cleared of murder by a state jury but convicted of manslaughter. Schwerner had opened the COFO field office in nearby Meridian, and led the office with his wife, Rita. He finally rested his head on the right shoulder of his mother, Fannie Lee. The third man, James Chaney, was a local African American man who had joined CORE in 1963. The way my stepdad tells it is that, after leaving Rushs residence, Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner decided to drive through town to catch Highway 19 to Meridian and avoid the winding back roads. From the September 2021 issue: What we still dont know about Emmett Tills murder. Four decades after losing her son, Mrs. Chaney drew national attention in June 2005 when she testified for the State of Mississippi in the murder case against one of the killers. Cause of death. It always sounds like they're burying St. Peter," Lewis says. Where nobodys hungry Places like Mount ZionBlack churches in Black communitieswere the only spaces where the activists could hope to have any safety. The McDonalds first lived in Syracuse, New York, and then Cleveland, places where they had some family. I told you that before we got married, Cleo said to Jewel. Exterior consists of a hard white shell and black brim, with a silver band wrapped around the front and . January 23, 1957. For those wishing to attend the service . A native of Meridian, he was once suspended from high school for wearing an NAACP badge. Legendary Hall of Fame basketball coach John Chaney, who was best known as the former coach of the Temple University basketball team, passed away at the age of 89 on January 29, 2021. Seven members of the Klan were convicted of federal civil rights violations. Obituary. Her oldest son, James, became involved in the civil rights movement early in his life. He was sentenced to 60 years in prison, where he remains. James Chaney in Indiana. .". Sullivan says Ben still has a sense of mission. The three Freedom Summer workers, all in their 20s, had been investigating the burning of a black church near Philadelphia, Mississippi when they disappeared in June of 1964. This is supposed to be back before the 60s, you know, and all that happened in the 60s, she said. J. Ben says he didnt become an activist just to avenge his brothers death. Most of all, prison taught him patience, he says. One of the last places they stopped was Rushs home, to pay their respects. Queens College Civil Rights Archives", "James Earl Chaney | James Earl Chaney Foundation", "The Philadelphia Coalition: Uniting for Justice", "Mississippi Burning 50th Anniversary of a Crime That Nearly Went Unpunished", "Edgar Ray Killen, the KKK leader convicted in the 'Mississippi Burning' killings, dies in prison", "Ben Chaney | James Earl Chaney Foundation", "President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom", Douglas O. Linder, "Biography of James Chaney", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Chaney&oldid=1141280596. After Chaney's death, his parents and siblings received death. Yes, were all in the same community; its all of our story, he told me. JeanAnne "Jeannie" D. Chaney, who earned her bachelor's degree in pharmacy from Purdue in 1961, and her husband, James B. Chaney, made the donation through the Chaney Family Foundation. Honored to have Peadbo selected as the winner among some amazing startups this weekend at RoadPitch!! . All had been shot, and Mr. Chaney had been beaten almost beyond recognition. The records include case files, Federal Bureau of Investigation memoranda, research notes and federal informant reports and witness testimonies. They also became the subject of several documentary and dramatic treatments, including the 1988 film Mississippi Burning., If it had been my son alone, Mrs. Chaney said in 1967, nothing would have been done. An argument between former Vice-President Dick Cheney's two daughters about gay marriage has gone public. But prison officials tried to break him psychologically because of his name. Find James Chaney's phone number, address, and email on Spokeo, the leading people search directory for contact information and public records. For about half an hour, she walked me through the exhibits that detailed what downtown social life was like in the 1920s. And nothin in this to lose Mississippi then-Attorney General Jim Hood officially closed the investigation in 2016. I dont think he ever changed, she says. He was born in Burnet, Texas to the late Tom Lafayette and Florence King Chaney on October 7, 1933. 2023 Cable News Network. "When I get on a mission, I leave my kids in the background.". Each year, she meets with those interested in learning more about the civil rights movement. Years later, when she finally sat down with her grandmother, "I was able to get a whole wealth of information," she said. Two cars of Klansmen had been following the station wagon. December 5, 2020 . The next move for former Lehigh head coach James Chaney is now official. If I had a daughter I would have full confidence in referring her to Dr Chaney. He turned 2 during the Freedom Summer of 1964, when nearly 1,000 volunteers from up north worked alongside local activists registering Black Mississippians to vote. But he is running out of time. President Lyndon Johnson ordered FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to fully investigate the disappearances of Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman. He had that real, slow, Southern demeanor, definitely not New York., But Ben never talked about his brothers murder to his friends. Access is free so discover James Chaney's story today. Bens name helped him win support on the outside. At the top of the headstone is a small picture of the deceased. Its the road they drove down after Price released them from jail at about 10:30 p.m. Less than 10 miles down the road is the marker for an area called Bethsaida, home to a suspected Klan meeting spot at the time. A devout Christian who sings in her church choir, Angela talks easily about her loss. said Jeff Steinberg, executive director of Sojourn to the Past, which takes high school students on a 10-day tour through the South. She gave tours until the pandemic began, especially to students, and plans to start again when she can. Listen and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Podcasts. My stepdad floored the gas pedal. "Now, that's the kind of thing I wanted to know. They adopted a son, James Cagney, Jr., in 1941, and then a daughter, Cathleen "Casey" Cagney. That summer changed America, said Bruce Watson, author of the 2010 book, Freedom Summer. She begged people to stop informing her what a hero he was. CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. The previously sealed materials - dating from 1964 to 2007 - were transferred to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History from the Mississippi attorney general's office in 2019. While they were locked up, Price called Edgar Ray Killen, a local preacher and Klansman, to alert him to the young mens capture. ", She finds fulfillment in working with youth, helping others who need help. That's why on Monday, the 52-year-old Chaney announced his resignation after eight seasons as the head football coach at. But he acts nothing like the sensitive 12-year-old who allowed the entire world to witness his grief. Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), According to a confession later made by one of the Klansmen, PhiladelphiaNeshoba County Historical Museum, seven convictions, eight not-guilty verdicts, and three mistrials, Murder In Mississippi: United States V. Price And The Struggle For Civil Rights. 2. Ben spent the prime of his life 13 years in prison. Mrs. Angela Lewis, daughter of Mr. James Earl Chaney, spoke about the importance of spreading love to combat hatred and bigotry. Finally Fannie Lee Chaney moved Ben and her three daughters to New York for their safety. McDonald turned 18 six days before the Klan burned down her church. He was the first born son to Ben Chaney Sr. and Fannie Lee. "She came down last summer, went to his grave and told me, 'This will probably be my last trip here. The man who shot Chaney complained that he hadnt gotten to kill one of the white men: You didnt leave anything but a nigger. Then the Klansmen loaded the bodies back into the station wagon and drove away. A report from the Associated Press said Mount Zion was one of four Negro churches scorched in Mississippi within a 10-day period. Even in this boom time of national memorialization of Black civil-rights history, in Philadelphia, tours like Obbie Rileys are the only real way to connect to the dark truth of our past. Other Affiliations: Middle Tennessee State University, Global Studies and Cultural Geography, Faculty Member. But on that June night, Klansmen came to Mount Zion after getting a tip that a meeting was happening at the church, and that Schwerner and other white civil-rights workers might be there. It was only when she became a mother that she really missed her father. His mother, a domestic servant, was protective; his father, a plasterer, left his mother when James was in his mid-teens. When I first went to Harlem, it was like heaven, he says. I understand that history is not just forgottenrather, it is destroyed by the same violence that claimed Mount Zion. He married the love of his life, Freeda James Chaney, and to this union four children were born. :les Chaney on Augu3t 7, 1961i- at 2:)0 P.M. at the Oniversity of :-!ississip. In 1965, the Voting Rights Act became a reality, and by the end of that year, Watson said, black voting "was a reality throughout the South, and America was a full democracy for the first time.". He said he has reservations about his office taking on more responsibility when it comes to formalizing the civil-rights tours. Ben traces the bullet holes with his right index finger. Discovery Company. Ben believes that the state of Mississippi is hoping that the rest of the men will die so it wont have to endure the ugly publicity of a new murder trial. Four white people were shot to death and two wounded during a murder spree that crossed Florida, North and South Carolina. Were too entrenched in this system. of the bowels. She decided instead to pour her passions into teaching students at church and is now pursuing a doctorate in theology, she said. There are also photographs of the exhumation of the victims' bodies and subsequent autopsies, along with aerial photographs of the burial site, according to an announcement from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. William Cheney. But the lack of infrastructure also meant that, for years, Jewel wasnt paid for her time, beyond voluntary donations. Hes no longer the 12-year-old boy sitting on the front porch waiting for his big brother. Tel: (662 . Nothing but cowards. James (Jay) Edward Chaney III, age 43, of Midland, Texas, passed away on June 13, 2020, in Midland. Fannie Lee Chaney, a $28-a-week bakery worker who became a target of racial hatred herself after her son James Chaney and two other civil rights workers were killed by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964, died on Tuesday in Willingboro, N.J. She was 84. The Clairon Ledger. In the center of town, the men pulled over to change a tire. Before, there were attempts to open up the vault to get to the coffin.. But Ben says that his brother was a practical joker who liked to gather with his friends on the corner to sing Motown. The violence stuck with him. Ben was crying, she recalled, and wanted to go with his older brother, whom he idolized, on a round of civil rights activities. Any time she gets near the cemetery where her father is buried, a quiet spirit overwhelms her soul, she said. He stayed there for five years but admitted he was an indifferent student. Join Facebook to connect with James Chaney and others you may know. None of them were imprisoned more than six years, but the killings helped inspire the historic civil rights march at Selma, Ala., in 1965 and the passage of the Voting Rights Act that year. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Though they are old, he wants them tried again. Obbie said he wonders what the trios conversation must have been, what they must have said to one another once they realized they were being pursued. Chaney was a native of Meridian and the eldest son in a family of five children. . This site rocks the Classic Responsive Skin for Thesis. Their popularity is understandable in a town where official sources, such as the local museum, are still reluctant to tell the story. He was sentenced to 60 years in prison for manslaughter; he died just shy of his 93rd birthday while incarcerated at Parchman, the state penitentiary. 3 Republican in the House of Representatives and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, was one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach former President Trump after the . . Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 PM, Thursday, June 18th, 2020 at Sunset Memorial Funeral Home with the Associate Minister Paula Brooks of First Christian Church of Midland, officiating. CNN It looks like Kanye West has a new "boo." The rapper/mogul posted on his verified Instagram account a screenshot of a. Liz Cheney, a candidate for a US Senate seat, told Fox News Sunday she believed in the. The event is an annual week of horse racing, politicking, beer chugging, and whiteness. He was described as shy in public, but a cutup in his home. In 1967, he was one of the 11 men who got off scot-free; a woman on the all-white jury said she couldnt bring herself to convict a preacher. She told me that when she was living up north, she never talked about what had happened in 1964no one did. Sullivan says he only found out about it through others. As the violence and heroism of that summer made headlines, Johnson ordered his attorney general to "write me the (expletive) best, toughest voting rights act that you can devise," Watson said. Its disturbing and painful, as the truth can be. Nineteen men were indicted on federal charges in the 1967 case. The 1964 killings of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner in Neshoba County sparked national outrage and helped spur passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. He was suffering from an unnamed illness for a short while. He kept a hip flask while filming all of his movies. The murder of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in Neshoba County, Miss., inspired the movie Mississippi Burning. J.N. The remarks didnt directly name whom the state might charge with murder, but everyone knew they referred to Killen. 10: Daughter: Opal Chaney. 6: He also still has family in Mississippi James Earls daughter, born a week after his murder. James Earl Chaney, often called J.E., had stopped by with his friend and colleague, Michael Mickey Schwerner, for some homemade biscuits. The famous attorney William Kunstler filed his case with the Supreme Court, which refused to hear it. This fall, on one of my trips back home, I decided to talk with him about that past. May 24, 2007. He waited so long that his mother finally ordered him to bed. Read: Ending 50 years of silence about Mississippis Freedom Summer. He is serving a 60-year sentence. It had been an open secret that the Klansman and Baptist preacher Edgar Ray Killen had played a significant role in the murders. Woman grapples with loss of father She is the only child born to any of the three civil rights workers whose killings by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in 1964. Editors Note: This is an excerpt from John Blakes 2004 book Children of the Movement about James Earl Chaney, one of three civil rights workers killed in Mississippi 50 years ago this month. Nate Tinner-Williams. Obbie, who also serves on the countys board of supervisors as the only Black person and sole Democrat, has spent his life capturing memories about that time from his elders. While there, he discovered that his last name both helped and hurt him. A museum board member later confirmed that it doesnt have anything on Mount Zion or the murders, and that curators focus on the agricultural and industrial history of the county, not social justice or race. Still a rookie, Walker is tasked with the security of a mining magnate's daughter, an easy job that quickly takes a turn for the worst. I think they made themselves believe that sticking their heads in the ground is a cure, he said. All that was ever found of him were a pair of shoes, his shirt and a watch, she told The Courier Post. Ben says history books and photos dont do justice to his brothers personality. He even organized one demonstration in New York that ended in a riot. The next move for former Lehigh head coach James Chaney is now official. James (Jay) Edward Chaney III, age 43, of Midland, Texas, passed away on June 13, 2020, in Midland. More attention may come this year during the 50th anniversary of "Freedom Summer," when energetic volunteers, many of them college students, traveled to Mississippi to join the work of those involved in the civil rights movement, including registering blacks to vote. Great deeds inspire and encourage the living. The disappearance of the three young men led to a massive FBI investigation that was code-named. Perhaps Ben needs all the emotional reserve he can get. Original Dallas Police Department police helmet and badge worn by Officer James M. Chaney during the tragic motorcade on November 22, 1963. Before her husband left her, Mrs. Chaney recalled, he had been concerned for his sons safety. Prison, he says, transformed him. Some people werent satisfied that his brother was dead. Goodman designated Ben as the first recipient of the Andrew Goodman Memorial Scholarship at the Walden School, an alternative private school where Goodman had once been a student. ", Lewis works as a nurse/counselor with abused children ages 12-17, at The Crossings, a 60-bed facility that is part of the Alliance Health Center. View James Chaney's 1940 US census record to find family members, occupation details & more. No one talks about it, after all. Then Ben began to receive other reminders that life was fragile. Edgar Ray Killen, found guilty in 2005 of three counts of manslaughter in the 'Mississippi Burning,' murders, is still in prison. In 1963 he began working in the Meridian office of the Congress on Racial Equality, or CORE. We deplore the possibility that history will record that the state of Mississippi, and this community in particular, did not make a good-faith effort to do its duty, Clemons said. .". Special thanks to Rohan Brown and Meagan T. for She is the only child born to any of the three civil rights workers whose killings by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in 1964 made news around the world. They caught the Greyhound bus headed north the next day. They feel the way they felt back in the 1960s, he says. This is what the spiritual Angela Lewis has reconciled in her heart: "God requires I love everybody, so I'm not angry at them. He no longer hates white people. And theres no color line On September 28, 1922, Cagney married dancer Frances Willard "Billie" Vernon, with whom he remained for the rest of his life. advertisement. 2023 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. . Moore told me that hes often the middleman connecting visitors who call ahead with guides like Obbie. James Chaney is organizing this fundraiser. James Earl Chaney joined in. Like many people, he thought a black revolution was imminent and he wanted to participate. He was baptized eight years ago and is the father of a 16-year-old girl, Amelia. "I didn't know much about my dad," she said. Nor does her grandmother talk about her fathers death much. So on a chilly November day, we hopped into his white pickup truck at dusk with his mean little mutt, Rex. Later, when he was 15 years old, he joined high school. As of last week, they are now available for viewing by the public at William F. Winter Archives and History Building in Jackson. 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