James Earl Chaney was from Meridian, Mississippi; he was one of three American civil rights activist who were murdered during Freedom Summer by members of the Ku Klux Klan. James Earl was the oldest son of Fannie Lee and Ben Chaney. At the age of 15 in high school, he and other students began wearing […]
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