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	James Chaney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Earl Chaney (May 30, 1943 – June 21, 1964) was a civil rights worker who was murdered (along with Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman) by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
		Chaney was born in the town of Meridian, Mississippi.
		Chaney's murder occurred near the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi, where Chaney was undertaking field work for CORE.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Chaney (461 words)

	Chaney, Goodman & Schwerner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		James Chaney was born May 30, 1943 in Meridian, Mississippi to Ben and Fannie Lee Chaney.
		Chaney had begun volunteer work at the new CORE office in Meridian in October, 1963, after a girlfriend introduced Chaney to Matt Suarez, the office's first director.
		Chaney was suspended for a week when he refused to remove a yellow paper NAACP "button." The next year he was expelled from school for fighting.
	www.core-online.org /History/chaney.htm (362 words)

	Biography of James Chaney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Chaney had begun volunteer work at the new CORE office in Meridian in Cotober, 1963, after a girlfriend introduced Chaney to Matt Suarez, the office's first director.
		Chaney was a native of Meridian and the eldest son in a family of five children.
		According to William Huie, Chaney "outside of the Movement was a Nobody facing a lifetime of being a "boy" helper to a white carpenter or painter or plumber.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/Chaney.htm (342 words)

	Beers: Chaney p. 800
		JAMES M. CHANEY, a prosperous and well-known farmer, is a native of Donegal township, Washington co., Penn., and a son of James Chaney, whose father Abraham was born in Maryland, and married in his native state.
		James Chaney was born on his father's farm in 1806, and passed his boyhood in the usual farm duties, receiving a very meager education.
		James M. Chaney was born in Coon Island, this county, and passed his early years on the home farm, receiving a common-school education.
	www.chartiers.com /beers-project/articles/chaney-800.html (552 words)

	Biography
		Chaney began his career as a trial lawyer in California in the 1980’s; he moved to Eugene with his family in 1991, going to work for the longtime Eugene firm of Jaqua and Wheatley, P.C. as an associate.
		Chaney has continued the Lane County tradition of involvement in statewide bar matters, having served on the Oregon Bench/Bar Professionalism Commission, chairing that body in 1999, and presently serving as an elected delegate to the OSB House of Delegates.
		Chaney developed and presented expert testimony regarding the formation of fl ice and its effect on control inputs, resulting in a defense verdict on a finding that his client driver was not negligent in his loss of control.
	thechaneyfirm.com /biography.htm (699 words)

	Mount Holyoke College News & Events
		Chaney discussed his coming of age during the American civil rights era; he had been arrested 21 times by the time he was 12 years old as a result of his participation in nonviolent demonstrations against segregation and oppression of African Americans.
		Chaney is the founder and president of the James Earl Chaney Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to voter registration, the protection of equal rights, and the defense of human rights.
		Chaney said, "The good and the bad parts of history must be shared so that we can learn from the past." Chaney and Orr-Klopfer also spoke of the changing face of racism in America.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/news/civilrights2.shtml (790 words)

	James Earl Chaney
		James Earl Chaney, the son of a plasterer, was born in Meridian, Mississippi, on 30th May 1943.
		On 21st June, 1964, Chaney, along with Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, went to Longdale to visit Mt. Zion Methodist Church, a building that had been fire-bombed by the Ku Klux Klan because it was going to be used as a Freedom School.
		James Chaney, 21, was a fl Mississippian from Meridian, a city in the eastern part of the state.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAchaney.htm (4350 words)

	Excerpt from a Look Into Black Catholic History
		James Earl Chaney was born on Mary 30, 1943 in racially segregated and economically depressed Meridian, Mississippi.
		James' father met him at the bus station and ushered him away from the bus and the brutality of the segregationists.
		After many meetings, James, Michael and the church leaders made plans for the church to be used as a training site for voter registration classes for the disenfranchised Black community in Neshoba County.
	www.learntoquestion.com /seevak/groups/2001/sites/moses/archives/excerpts/Excerpt_Chaney.htm (796 words)

	USATODAY.com - Community commemorates 40th anniversary of civil rights murders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Chaney, a 21-year-old fl man from Mississippi, and Goodman, 20, and Schwerner, 24, both white men from New York City, were part of the "Freedom Summer" program in which young civil rights workers organized voter education and registration campaigns.
		Ben Chaney, the younger brother of James Chaney, boycotted Sunday's event, saying organizers were circumventing the efforts of church leaders, who have been memorializing the civil rights workers for decades.
		Chaney, who is leading a caravan of 29 volunteers on a two-week voter registration drive to teach about the civil rights movement, told reporters he wanted nothing to do with the Philadelphia Coalition — and even requested that it stop using his slain brother's name.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-06-20-memorial-civilrights_x.htm (552 words)

	James M. Chaney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James M. Chaney (1921-1976) was a witness and Dallas police motorcycle presidential escort riding only ten to fifteen feet away from (slightly behind and to the right of) President John F. Kennedy during his assassination on November 22, 1963 within Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.
		Chaney further stated that "the second shot hit him in the face," and that a third shot was fired that Chaney did not see hit the president but he did see Governor John B. Connally's shirt erupt in blood.
		James Chaney, the closest non-limousine witness to the president during the assassination, was never called by the Warren Commission to testify.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_M._Chaney (335 words)

	Keeping the Legacy Alive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Chaney’s Dairy Barn was opened in September 2003 to a public hungry for something different and something “udderly” wonderful.
		The farm itself was purchased by the Chaney family in 1888 and became a dairy farm in 1940 when James Chaney, Sr.
		Plans are in the works for a full processing facility on the farm in the next couple of years so that fresh Jersey milk may be sold directly to the public and used in their delicious ice cream.
	www.chaneysdairybarn.com /history.htm (359 words)

	Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman: The Struggle for Justice - Human Rights Magazine, Spring 2000
		By the time Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman left Oxford for Mississippi, their murders had been legitimized, and the plot had been hatched.
		Ben Chaney is the founder and president of The James Earl Chaney Foundation.
		His brother, James Chaney, a civil rights worker, was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan along with Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman.
	www.abanet.org /irr/hr/spring00humanrights/chaney.html (1454 words)

	CNN.com - Brother recalls horrible summer of '64 - Jan 7, 2005
		Ben Chaney said his family was forced to move from Mississippi and that the grave of his brother was desecrated for 25 years.
		Ben Chaney told CNN he believes the Mississippi attorney general went after the weakest person in the investigation, and other, more powerful whites are going unpunished.
		Ben Chaney said his family was forced to move from Mississippi in 1965 after Klan members shot at their house and burned crosses in the yard.
	www.cnn.com /2005/LAW/01/07/mississippi.reax/index.html (1093 words)

	10 O'Clock News \| Black / Jewish Seder
		Footage of Ben Chaney (brother of James Chaney) saying that racism and anti-semitism are not a regional problem.
		Jones reports that Ben Chaney was eleven years old in 1964; that Ben Chaney began to work with James Chaney and Michael Schwerner to register African Americans in Mississippi to vote in 1964.
		Ben Chaney says that he did not believe that any of the demonstrators would die as a result of their actions until his brother was found dead.
	main.wgbh.org /ton/programs/6440_02.html (715 words)

	clarionledger.com
		For 36 years, the injuries to Chaney have been blamed on the bulldozer the FBI used to exhume the bodies of the trio, buried 15 feet beneath an earthen dam.
		The secret of why Chaney may have been treated differently can be found in the long-sealed records of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a segregationist spy agency headed by the governor from 1956 to 1973.
		"James Chaney, the colored member of this group, is alleged to have broke (sic) away from the group of men that were holding them captive," commission investigator Andy Hopkins wrote in his Jan. 26, 1965, report for the Sovereignty Commission's files.
	orig.clarionledger.com /news/0006/04/04miburn.html (1758 words)

	Civil Rights Murders Cleve McDowell Chaney Goodman Schwerner
		Chaney’s younger brother, Ben Chaney, would ultimately document a direct relationship between the Klan, the Sovereignty Commission, and the Citizens Councils that led to the murder of the three volunteers.
		Ben Chaney found Sovereignty Commission records which "indicated that in February 1964, a member of the Citizens' Council obtained the license plate number of Schwerner's car and circulated a description of the car throughout the state." In March, the Commission began an intensive surveillance of the Schwerners, reporting that.
		But Chaney, only 10 when his older brother was killed, also called the new investigation a charade, saying the Mississippi attorney general went after the weakest person in the investigation, bypassing the "prominent whites" who he claimed were involved in the killings, and focusing on only a few "unapologetic" Klansmen:
	themiddleoftheinternet.com /Chaney_Goodman_Schwerner.htm (3631 words)

	$100,000 reward for Mississippi's infamous Civil Rights murders
		Because James Chaney was an African American and a Christian, and Goodman and Schwerner were both white and Jewish, the three young men were murdered while investigating the firebombing of an African American church.
		But Ben Chaney, the younger brother of James, thinks that some of the people behind the new push to solve the 1964 murders may want to clean up the state's reputation by deceptive means.
		James E. Prince III, the grandson of the former head of the White Citizen's Council, is currently publisher and editor of the Neshoba Democrat newspaper.
	www.rickross.com /reference/hate_groups/hategroups388.html (848 words)

	Amazon.com: A Man of a Thousand Faces: DVD: James Cagney,Dorothy Malone,Jane Greer,Marjorie Rambeau,Jim Backus,Robert ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Chaney was to go on to reclaim his career, as well as his son, but would do so on film, rather than on stage, becoming an extremely popular silent film actor.
		James Cagney is terrific in the role of Lon Chaney, creating a three dimensional portrait of a man whose childhood was to influence him is so positive a way.
		James Cagney as Lon Chaney, Dorothy Malone as Cleva Creighton Chaney, Jane Greer as Hazel Bennett Chaney, Marjorie Rambeau as Gert a movie extra, Jim Backus as Clarence Locan, Robert Evans as Irving Thalberg, Celia Lovsky as Mrs.
	www.amazon.com /Man-Thousand-Faces-James-Cagney/dp/6305078483 (2215 words)

	Reputed Klansman set to stand trial for 1964 murders Jet - Find Articles
		Fannie Lee Chaney, 82, James Chaney's mother, left Mississippi in 1965 after threats were made upon her life, reports the Times.
		Her only other son Ben Chaney, 52, is head of the James Earl Chaney Foundation, which he established in 1989 to raise money to repair the desecrated grave of his brother.
		Chaney's life have forever deterred her from returning to the southern state to live.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1355/is_5_107/ai_n9771046 (497 words)

	Chaney
		Greenberry Chaney son of CHARLES CHANEY b 1673 is there as well as Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Chaney and Sarah Westhall.
		I am not certain which of these CHARLES CHANEYs is the son of Richard Chaney and Charity and which is the son of Charles Chaney and Ann Jones.
		GREEN BERRY4 CHANEY I (BENJAMIN3, RICHARD2 I, RICHARD1) was born August 1740 in Maryland, and died ?1779 in Wilkes, Georgia.
	pages.prodigy.net /blankenstein/chaney.htm (2123 words)

	Chaney, Orr-Klopfer to Speak at Mount Holyoke Conference
		Ben Chaney, younger brother of the slain civil rights activist James Chaney, and civil rights author Susan Orr-Klopfer are set to share stories of the explosive civil rights past at an upcoming Weissman Center conference at Mount Holyoke College.
		She is to appear with Ben Chaney, the brother of slain activist James Chaney as they engage in dialogue about social reconstruction..
		He is the founder and president of the James Earl Chaney Foundation, a non-profit organization established in 1998 and that is committed to civil rights, human rights, and to social justice.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2006/3/emw353776.htm (672 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Ex-Klansman found guilty in notorious '64 slayings
		Rita Schwerner Bender, widow of Michael Schwerner, hugs Ben Chaney, brother of James Chaney, after Edgar Ray Killen was found guilty in the deaths of the two men and Andrew Goodman.
		Edgar Ray Killen took a deep breath and sat expressionless as the judge pronounced him guilty of orchestrating the slayings of Michael Schwerner, 24, James Chaney, 21, and Andrew Goodman, 20, who were beaten and shot to death the night of June 21, 1964, on a rural road near Killen's home.
		Ben Chaney, the younger brother of James Chaney, has been critical of prosecutors for failing to expand the case.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002344134_klan22.html (1271 words)

	BlueOregon: "After 25 years, I am no longer a Republican." -James Chaney
		Last week, the Eugene Register-Guard published a column by James Chaney, a Eugene attorney and Republican stalwart, who declared, “As of today, after 25 years, I am no longer a Republican.” Registration figures suggest Chaney is not the only Republican who has reached this conclusion, but Chaney is notable for the way he said it.
		James Chaney’s complaint is more evidence of the discontent brewing below the surface of Oregon’s civic life.
		Chaney's principled decision, but it seems like if everybody who felt the same way also left the party, it would guarantee that the party would not change -- because the only people left would be the ones who think it's on the right track.
	www.blueoregon.com /2005/07/after_25_years_.html (6789 words)

	SPLCenter.org: Murder trial in '64 civil rights case under way
		Killen, an 80-year-old part-time preacher, was arrested Jan. 6 in connection with the slayings of James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.
		The Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney murders, however, are three that have continued to go unresolved.
		Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner are among the 40 martyrs listed on the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery.
	www.splcenter.org /news/item.jsp?aid=113 (560 words)

	CJ Online Features: Back from the grave 01/31/98
		The FBI would learn Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner were ambushed by the Klan, shot to death and their bodies buried.
		Seven men, including the deputy, were convicted in a federal court of depriving Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner of their civil rights by murdering them.
		What Navone painted were the skeletal specters of Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman, but not as corpses lying in their makeshift graves.
	www.cjonline.com /stories/013198/uni_grave.html (2220 words)

	African American Registry: James Chaney fought for civil rights
		In 1959, he and a group of friends were suspended from high school for wearing buttons criticizing the local chapter of the NAACP for its unresponsiveness to racial issues.
		Chaney was expelled a year later for a similar incident and went to work with his father as a plasterer.
		Chaney was arrested for speeding and Schwerner and Goodman were arrested as suspects in the church bombing.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/911/james_chaney_fought_for_civil_rights (343 words)

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