Early Life. 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. Before her husband left her, Mrs. Chaney recalled, he had been concerned for his sons safety. James (Jay) Edward Chaney III, age 43, of Midland, Texas, passed away on June 13, 2020, in Midland. James Earl Chaney's siblings forced to flee home after his murder, Brother of slain activist says he hated white people, No one has ever been convicted in the murder of the civil rights workers, Chaney's daughter talks about dad she never knew. Her sons murder was not Mrs. Chaneys first experience with the disappearance of a family member. So did James Chaney, a Black CORE staffer and native of Meridian whod been working with Schwerner that summer. 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 . She couldnt miss someone she never knew. When hes not in Mississippi, Ben is a paralegal in New York. I dont know if Im angry at them as individuals or as a group, he says. One day last fall, I finally succeeded at getting insidethe hours of operation are a mere suggestion. James Chaney is organizing this fundraiser. Chaney, who coached the Lightning from 2015 until his resignation on Dec. 12, will reunite with former North Fort. January 23, 1957. They felt justified in what they were doing, and they still feel justified., Ben says his brother had no illusions about the men he was going against. Sign up for it here. The red-brick building sits a ways back from the road, accessible by a semicircle driveway. Perhaps Ben needs all the emotional reserve he can get. Theyre in church cemeteries and in the stories passed downthe ghosts that appear to haunt only some of us. The fair was where Ronald Reagan launched his presidential campaign with a speech about states rights, a loud dog whistle not far in distance or time from the Freedom Summer murders. on cryin, Tired of them hungry blues He said he has reservations about his office taking on more responsibility when it comes to formalizing the civil-rights tours. I asked my uncle not long ago, 'What are we really accomplishing here?' Johnson's aide Lee White told the president that there was no trace of the men and they had "disappeared from the face of the earth." City, N.J., on August 22, 1964. He got his associates degree in prison and later got his bachelors degree from John Jay College. Most of all, prison taught him patience, he says. People walked up to him to offer comfort, but he shooed them away. Maybe this trial will do it. They established the endowment with a $1 million gift in 2014 that has provided scholarships to more than 140 students. But despite this and another confession, no Southern jury would ever convict anyone for the actual murder of Chaney or his colleagues. James Earl Chaney, often called J.E., had stopped by with his friend and colleague, Michael Mickey Schwerner, for some homemade biscuits. If you speak with her, you would sense that my fathers death just happened yesterday., When she discovered how her father died, Angela says she didnt experience any anger or deep sadness. Two cars of Klansmen had been following the station wagon. Now my stepfather is one of a handful of Black folks around town who give informal tours of Philadelphias civil-rights history. But prison officials tried to break him psychologically because of his name. As they awaited a driver, Fannie Lee Chaney and her husband, Ben Sr., sat in the front seat of a sedan; their daughters, Barbara, Janice and Julia, sat in the back with Ben, who hunched forward. A Ku Klux Klan member confessed to FBI agents that he had witnessed the murders. Ben sat on his front porch that afternoon and waited for his brother to return. He let them fix their car before arresting them and taking them to the county jail, booking Chaney for speeding and holding Schwerner and Goodman for investigation. James said, I can probably do something for myself and help somebody else, she recalled. He got his chance and paid dearly for it. He spoke around Harlem about the need for black people to train themselves in self-defense. In April 1970, one of Bens friends asked him to accompany him while he visited a relative in Florida. We trekked upstairs to the veterans memorial, in a dusty room that felt like an attic. My stepdad, Obbie Riley, was born in Philadelphia, Mississippi, a place known nationally more for an act of unspeakable violence than for anything else. CNN It looks like Kanye West has a new "boo." The rapper/mogul posted on his verified Instagram account a screenshot of a. Photos of Little Ben Chaney, shattered by grief at his brothers memorial service, would make their way across the world. Ben traces the bullet holes with his right index finger. . He also still has family in Mississippi James Earls daughter, born a week after his murder. Ben also has vivid memories of Schwerner, his brothers murdered colleague. Find James Chaney's phone number, address, and email on Spokeo, the leading people search directory for contact information and public records. There are those who are dead, yet will live forever. Another time they found him passed out naked in his trailer, covered in feces. ", She finds fulfillment in working with youth, helping others who need help. Schwerner had become a family friend through frequent visits. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. That's why on Monday, the 52-year-old Chaney announced his resignation after eight seasons as the head football coach at. I dont think a conversation would have changed him. Ben Chaney, younger brother of James Earl Chaney. I think he was aware of the danger, Ben says. Yet people from all over have managed to reach themObbie estimates that hes given more than 100 tours. Nineteen men were eventually arrested in the deaths of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner. 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. A hug. You gotta line up to go to breakfast, lunch and dinner. Now a computer consultant in New York, Sullivan chuckles at the figure Ben cut when he started going around New York in his dashiki and sandals to tell black students to get organized. But he is running out of time. He served in both the First World War and Second World War. Resident of Latonia, KY. Rowan Vansleve, who is the Chief Fundraising Officer of the charity Hope of the Valley Rescue Mission, has shared a video on Instagram of Foo Fighters legend Dave Grohl sending a . 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. Tell her something that would make him real. 3:46 PM. The FBI on June 29, 1964, began distributing this picture of civil rights worker James E. Chaney, who disappeared near Philadelphia, Miss., June 21, 1964. But I know that Im angry over the fact that my brother is dead and no one has been brought to justice for his death., He has no interest in trying to discern the mindset of the men who killed his brother. The message resonated with Ben, who was now a young man. The others were Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner from New York City. But I want you to know that I love you and I love your kids. "She challenges our students and asks them what will they do with their lives will they dedicate their lives helping others like her dad did?" But the lack of infrastructure also meant that, for years, Jewel wasnt paid for her time, beyond voluntary donations. Jewel began giving tours around the time of the trial that put Killen away. Guides like Obbie dont have websites, or even Facebook pages. In 2004, the Mississippi Attorney General's office reopened the investigation. They took him to demonstrations and Ben was even arrested twice. Even to this day, I get calls from him about ideas he wants to try out. 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. But when it's all over, no matter how it turns out, I think I'm going to understand my father a little better, add another piece of flesh to this man who is still forming in my mind. His mother, a domestic servant, was protective; his father, a plasterer, left his mother when James was in his mid-teens. During his state trial in 2005, witnesses testified that on June 21, 1964, Killen went to Meridian to round up carloads of klansmen to ambush Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman, telling some of the klan members to bring plastic or rubber gloves. In 1940, he was 9 years old and lived in Columbus, Kentucky, with his father, mother, 2 brothers, and 2 sisters. "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. He knew what would happen if they got caught., When searchers eventually found his brothers body buried in an earthen dam, Ben says he still refused to accept that his brother was dead. 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. Christine Guido '20 Sarah spoke about her experience attending the inaugural Civil Rights Pilgrimagelast spring. In 2004, he was still alive, and living nearby. The pain is so consuming. She saw a need, both for the kids in the area who werent learning this history in schooland whose grandparents might have still been afraid to talk, Jewel addedand for the out-of-towners who would come by the church and elsewhere asking for a tour. Price pulled up beside them. I guess its a thing guys just dont talk about.. Mrs. Chaney was the last witness for the prosecution at Mr. Killens trial. For those wishing to attend the service . The Associated Press contributed to this report. He finally rested his head on the right shoulder of his mother, Fannie Lee. 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. "I remember my grandmother told me she used to make his lunch for him to take to school, but he would stop and eat it on the way," she says, laughing. He stayed there for five years but admitted he was an indifferent student. No, James Earl Chaney told his little brother. He was a clerk in the prison library where he consumed books such as Malcolm Xs autobiography, George Orwells Animal Farm and various biographies. A hug. There was a period where I felt like I hated mankind, he says. Dr. James Chaney, MD, is an Obstetrics & Gynecology specialist practicing in Amory, MS with 38 years of experience. This snapshot of James Chaney's life was captured by the 1940 U.S. Census. It is special. He sticks to arranging tours on a case-by-case basis. Discovery Company. Accountability for the crimes had been minimal. "The older I get, the more I realize I'm like my dad.". 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. The site in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were murdered in 1964. . 298. A Warner Bros. What happened next sent Ben to prison. You gotta line up and wait for mail. Exactly 52 years ago, on June 21, 1964, the men disappeared after . I think they made themselves believe that sticking their heads in the ground is a cure, he said. 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. 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. A leading lady on one of his Mummy movies said he could barely stand straight while trying to pick her up. The records include case files, Federal Bureau of Investigation memoranda, research notes and federal informant reports and witness testimonies. Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 PM, Thursday, June 18th, 2020 at Sunset Memorial. 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. She hopes youth will soon rise up just as they did during her father's time. Its perfectly possible to come to Philadelphia, Mississippi, without ever encountering this history. Ben Chaney, slumped over, weeps at the August 7, 1964, funeral of his brother, James Earl Chaney. They feel the way they felt back in the 1960s, he says. ', "I would like some closure for her. If I had a daughter I would have full confidence in referring her to Dr Chaney. But his brother sensed that people were out to get him. Like many white people his age, Moore didnt learn about the history of Mount Zion until he was an adult. Hes seen gloating Southern lawmen escape conviction in his brothers death. No one talks about it, after all. 8: Son: Billy Chaney. Four white people were shot to death and two wounded during a murder spree that crossed Florida, North and South Carolina. A thing like thats worth son. The cars drove together to a secluded spot on Rock Cut Road. Ben became an activist like his brother. We proceeded down the two-lane road, a stretch of which has been renamed Goodman Chaney Schwerner Memorial Highway. My grandmother is still hurt, she says. While there, he discovered that his last name both helped and hurt him. Especially during these past two years of the pandemic, when gathering with elders has been tricky at best, Ive been anxious about all of the memories, histories, and knowledge we stand to lose. Were too entrenched in this system. He kept a hip flask while filming all of his movies. {edtoal.School pathologbt.t. She told me that when she was living up north, she never talked about what had happened in 1964no one did. The views expressed on this site are mine, and those of my guest authors, and do not represent, More Good Coverage Of The Edgar Ray Killen Trial, Ten Living Suspects In The Neshoba Murders Case, Some still remember the day Mississippi was nuked, Richard Joe Butler: Shot by Klansmen and Still Standing. James "Jay" Edward Chaney III <p>James (Jay) Edward Chaney III, age 43, of Midland, Texas, passed away on June 13, 2020, in Midland.<br /> <br /> <br /> Funeral Services will be heldat 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. In the center of town, the men pulled over to change a tire. On September 28, 1922, Cagney married dancer Frances Willard "Billie" Vernon, with whom he remained for the rest of his life. We pulled out of the long gravel driveway and drove into history. Klansmen returned later that night and set fire to Mount Zion, burning it down completely. Edited by Honza Pokorny < honza@pokorny.ca > June 6, 2019 in Canada. 2:12 PM EDT, Sat June 28, 2014. Theres another thing to choose His office, where Ben frequently works well into the evening, is filled with books and articles on black America and the prison system. The site in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were murdered in 1964. Leroy Clemons, then the president of the local NAACP chapter and also a tour guide, read the announcement with Prince, his fellow coalition chair. Mighty long time, she told The Times, saying of the killers, Most of them dead about now., Fannie Lee Chaney, 84, Mother of Slain Civil Rights Worker, Is Dead, https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/obituaries/24chaney.html. The time for violence is pretty much past. 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. A A. LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. The head football coach for the Lehigh Senior High School, James Chaney, resign. I did not go and tell the cops that this person had killed someone.. Lon Chaney Jr. Johnson: Donald Cook: Dean Larry Benson: Charles Dingle: She responds with words she never heard as a child while her mom and stepfather worked endless shifts as waiters. Delivered by FeedBurner. At the main entrance, a volunteer told me that guided civil-rights tours werent being offered during the pandemic and that she didnt know who normally organized them. Physicians & Surgeons Clinic . Special thanks to Rohan Brown and Meagan T. for He was a lifelong resident of Warren County where he served as Chancery Clerk from 1976-1984,. Her students are violent. Her family hid her out of fear for her safety. I have no idea what it is like to have your father taken simply because he wanted civil and human rights. 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. James Chaney. JACKSON, Miss. "When I get on a mission, I leave my kids in the background.". Great deeds inspire and encourage the living. The killing of three civil-rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964 changed America. The story contains language that some people may find objectionable. This article appears in the May 2022 print edition with the headline Tour Guides to a Tragedy.. appreciated. But he persisted because there was this tremendous frustration building up among blacks in Mississippi by the early 1960s. Today I remember the lives of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. He stands on a desolate hilltop before a marble headstone printed with the name James Earl Chaney.. She begged people to stop informing her what a hero he was. 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. Never-before-seen case files, photographs and other records documenting the investigation into the infamous slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi are now open to the public for the first time, 57 years after their deaths. A week into the project, Klansmen murdered three young civil-rights workersJames Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwernerwho had come to investigate the Ku Klux Klans burning of Mount Zion United Methodist Church, where my stepdad grew up worshipping. For many years, she felt hurt and anger toward her father because he never came to see her before his death, she said. Middle Tennessee State University, Global Studies and Human Geography, Faculty Member. Mrs. Chaney recounted the eggs thrown and gunshots fired at her house after the murders, as well as the telephoned death threats. 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 . Bens name helped him win support on the outside. They said they were going to put dynamite under my house, she said, and blow us to bits.. In 2005, after an eight-day trial, a Neshoba County jury convicted Killen on three counts of manslaughter. "They're my last living links to my dad.". Goodman & Schwerner were Jewish. From this point, the details diverge depending on whose version of events you hear. For months, the group Prince helped organize, which became known as the Philadelphia Coalition, listened to stories of residents like Jewel, who told them about how her mother and brother were beaten. He is the owner of the hotel room prison in which Joe Doucett is held captive. 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. Ben says history books and photos dont do justice to his brothers personality. 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. We stay away from issues that would be controversial, he said. All had been shot, and Mr. Chaney had been beaten almost beyond recognition. That summer changed America, said Bruce Watson, author of the 2010 book, Freedom Summer. Willie Edwards Jr. (November 13, 1932 - January 23, 1957) was a 24-year-old African American, husband and father, who was murdered by members of the Alabama Ku Klux . But as Ben leans forward to look at the picture, his eyes narrow: two bullet holes pierce his brothers image. A bedtime story told with his voice, his inflections. Ben was one of 25 black students in a student body of about 800. All 3 died helping others - all three witnessed the power and love of . Learning this history is like taking bitter medicine, my stepdad said. Friends shaking their hands, realizing they're covered with blood. I didnt realize what I missed until I saw my daughter with her daddy, she says. Both were going to investigate a church burning and Ben wanted to go. There was a period where I felt like I hated mankind. But few who pass her on the street know her story. McDonald turned 18 six days before the Klan burned down her church. Rare Interview With Angela Lewis, Daughter Of James Chaney. :les Chaney on Augu3t 7, 1961i- at 2:)0 P.M. at the Oniversity of :-!ississip. Kanye West and Chaney Jones have been spotted out together recently. Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid. 2 min read. 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. Jacob Chaney was born in 1715 in South River, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland. Leave a sympathy message to the family on the memorial page of James Chaney to pay them a last tribute. NEW Abbott And Costello: Their Lives And Legacy - Featuring Interviews With Chris Costello (Daughter Of Lou Costello) And Ron . At the top of the headstone is a small picture of the deceased. Read: Ending 50 years of silence about Mississippis Freedom Summer. Ben spent the prime of his life 13 years in prison. As law-enforcement and military officials searched the surrounding area for the three victims, they came across the bodies of two Black men who had gone missing earlier that year. I realize that my own efforts to chronicle their stories are attempts at picking up reins that they will soon cease to hold. This is supposed to be back before the 60s, you know, and all that happened in the 60s, she said. (Page 2) Lucinda Chaney "Sinda or Synda" (James M. Chaney, Amos Chaney, John Chaney, Jacob Chaney, Charles, Richard, Richard, Richard) was born 1 on Feb 26 1851 in Kentucky. When Chaney Smith was born in 1780, in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States, her father, Timothy Smith, was 46 and her mother, Ruth Parsons, was 38. President Lyndon Johnson ordered the FBIto assist local law enforcement officers in the search for the missing men. Its not as easy for her as it once wasin 2010, McDonald lost her right leg to a bacterial infection. This is what the spiritual Angela Lewis has reconciled in her heart: "God requires I love everybody, so I'm not angry at them. In June 2005, Killen was finally prosecuted by the state of Mississippi. This site rocks the Classic Responsive Skin for Thesis. Her oldest son, James, became involved in the civil rights movement early in his life. Few knew that when Ben collapsed into his mothers arms and wept that morning, his pain was just beginning. She married James Maynard on 10 March 1808, in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States. "It wasn't until later I learned that he had been in Ohio training" when she was born, then traveled to Mississippi the day before he was killed. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. An entire room on the first floor is dedicated to the country-music star and Philadelphia native Marty Stuart. Lon Chaney, Jr. Schwerner knew he had to head back to Philadelphia. When Cleo popped into the kitchen, he told me that it was always in the plan to return. In 1989 he established the James Earl Chaney Foundation to stop vandalism of his brothers grave. They later became the subject of the movie "Mississippi Burning.". But I never want to infringe on that particular story, because it is sacred. Across from Stuarts room is another music-centered room, dedicated to Otis Rush and Foots Baxstrum, whose histories have been given a wall apiece. There are different versions of what happened next. Ben Chaney, the brother of slain civil rights worker James Chaney, smiles after a jury convicts Edgar Ray Killen of manslaughter in the death of his brother. Skip Ancestry main menu Main Menu. He gave the home to me so that it would not be lost and it would stay in the family. June 28, 2021 / 7:52 AM This is where the chase began, he told me. Before, there were attempts to open up the vault to get to the coffin.. He claimed that Price had arrested and released the three civil rights workers that night, knowing that a mob was waiting to ambush them on a rural road. Black people arent prepared for the consequences. . The helmet was manufactured by Bell Toptex and bears manufacturer's tags affixed inside, as well as one affixed to the back which reads: Toptex, TX-102. 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. CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. But four decades after his older brother was beaten and shot to death on a deserted Mississippi road, no one has been convicted for his murder. Angela was born out of wedlock, a week after her father was murdered. of the bowels. In 1983 former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark finally interceded and persuaded the Florida parole board to release Ben. The Life of Chaney. 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 . 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. Years later, when she finally sat down with her grandmother, "I was able to get a whole wealth of information," she said. . I sat at the kitchen counter as he washed dishes. 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. As he talks about his brother, Bens voice softens and his sense of humor bubbles to the surface. Ben says he didnt become an activist just to avenge his brothers death. She remembered how her grandfather had refused to sell his house and land to white people. Cheney, the No. May 24, 2007. Schwerner had opened the COFO field office in nearby Meridian, and led the office with his wife, Rita. Her husband, also named Ben, was a plasterer. The event is an annual week of horse racing, politicking, beer chugging, and whiteness. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) civil rights workers killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan on June 21, 1964. They knew he was coming before he actually arrived in prison. None served more than six years. A federal trial in 1967 resulted in seven convictions, eight not-guilty verdicts, and three mistrials. He doubts if any of them experienced any guilt or regret during the years that have followed. Janet Jackson Breaks Silence On Rumored Secret Daughter With Ex James DeBarge. Obituary. . He has to be constantly doing something., Despite their lifetime friendship, Sullivan says they have never talked about Bens slain brother or his time in prison. 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. 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