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Fannie Lee Chaney (September 4, 1921 – May 22, 2007) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 baker
Baker

A baker is someone who primarily bakes and sells bread. Cakes and similar foods may also be produced, as the traditional boundaries between what is produced by a baker as opposed to a pastry chef have blurred in recent decades....
 turned civil rights activist after her son James Chaney
James Chaney

James Earl "J.E." Chaney was one of three United States civil rights workers who was murdered during Freedom Summer by members of the Ku Klux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi....
 was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klux Klan is the name of several past and present secret domestic militant organizations in the United States, originating in the southern states and eventually having national scope, that are best known for advocating white supremacy and acting as terrorists while hidden behind conical hats, masks and white robes....
 during the 1964 Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer was a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to voter registration as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters....
 rides in Mississippi.

After her son’s murder, Mrs. Chaney sued five restaurants in Meridian for racial discrimination. She was fired from her job and could not find other work. Crosses were burned on her lawn, and a firebomb intended for her family’s house destroyed that of a neighbor.






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Fannie Lee Chaney (September 4, 1921 – May 22, 2007) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 baker
Baker

A baker is someone who primarily bakes and sells bread. Cakes and similar foods may also be produced, as the traditional boundaries between what is produced by a baker as opposed to a pastry chef have blurred in recent decades....
 turned civil rights activist after her son James Chaney
James Chaney

James Earl "J.E." Chaney was one of three United States civil rights workers who was murdered during Freedom Summer by members of the Ku Klux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi....
 was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klux Klan is the name of several past and present secret domestic militant organizations in the United States, originating in the southern states and eventually having national scope, that are best known for advocating white supremacy and acting as terrorists while hidden behind conical hats, masks and white robes....
 during the 1964 Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer was a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to voter registration as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters....
 rides in Mississippi.

After her son’s murder, Mrs. Chaney sued five restaurants in Meridian for racial discrimination. She was fired from her job and could not find other work. Crosses were burned on her lawn, and a firebomb intended for her family’s house destroyed that of a neighbor. She moved to New York City
New York City

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, finding work at a nursing home. After 30 years, she retired and moved to New Jersey
New Jersey

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.

In 2005 she testified for the State of Mississippi in the murder case against Edgar Ray Killen
Edgar Ray Killen

Edgar Ray "Preacher" Killen is a former Ku Klux Klan organizer who Mississippi civil rights workers murders three American Civil Rights Movement activists in 1964....
, one of her son's killers. Killen was cleared of murder by the jury, but convicted of manslaughter
Manslaughter

Manslaughter is a legal term for the killing of a human being, in a manner considered by law as less culpable than murder.The law generally differentiates between levels of criminal culpability based on the mens rea, or state of mind....
 and given a 60 years sentence, which he is serving.

Death

Fannie Chaney died in Willingboro, New Jersey in May 2007 of undisclosed causes, aged 84. Three months later, Carolyn Goodman
Carolyn Goodman

Dr. Carolyn Elizabeth Drucker Goodman was a clinical psychologist who became a prominent civil rights advocate after her son, Andrew Goodman and two other civil rights workers were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Neshoba County, Mississippi in 1964....
, the mother of Andrew Goodman
Andrew Goodman

Andrew Goodman was one of three United States American Civil Rights Movement activists who were murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer in 1964 by members of the Ku Klux Klan....
, who was killed with Chaney, also died.

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