He was then known as Little Ben Chaney. In the pictures news photographers took of him at his brothers memorial service, his resemblance to his brother was uncanny: the same almond-shaped eyes, high forehead and oval-shaped lips. 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 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. Follow. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Places like Mount ZionBlack churches in Black communitieswere the only spaces where the activists could hope to have any safety. She was buried 3 on Sep 26 1934 in Mt. She was fired from her job and could not find other work. 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. 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. . That was the first time most people would see Ben, the younger brother of James Earl Chaney, one of three civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi during the summer of 1964. In addition to her son Ben, of Manhattan, and her daughter Barbara, of Willingboro, Mrs. Chaney is survived by two other daughters, Janice Chaney of Brooklyn and Julia Chaney-Moss of Willingboro. The coalitions efforts paid off. the daughter of Georgia Rush, the woman . He was a lifelong resident of Warren County where he served as Chancery Clerk from 1976-1984,. Christine Guido '20 Sarah spoke about her experience attending the inaugural Civil Rights Pilgrimagelast spring. Research Interests: Anthropology, Geography, European History, Ethnography, Latin American Studies, Space and Place, and 19 more. In 2004, the Mississippi Attorney General's office reopened the investigation. You gotta line up to do anything.. 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. Kanye West and Chaney Jones have been spotted out together recently. (Page 2) He married the love of his life, Freeda James Chaney, and to this union four children were born. She gave tours until the pandemic began, especially to students, and plans to start again when she can. She thinks somehow they will pay in this life or the one to come. Seven were convicted of violating the victims' civil rights. When hes not in Mississippi, Ben is a paralegal in New York. 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. Ben traces the bullet holes with his right index finger. l!ediod Sc:hod Hospit al. James (Jay) Edward Chaney III, age 43, of Midland, Texas, passed away on June 13, 2020, in Midland. Now the reporter Ko Bragg searches for memories in a town that would rather forget. Jewel began giving tours around the time of the trial that put Killen away. 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. We was met in Indianola by policemen, Highway Patrolmen, and they only allowed two of . Great deeds inspire and encourage the living. The search for them seized the worlds attention, ending only with the discovery of their bodies in an earthen dam near the town of Philadelphia on Aug. 4. 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. . Perhaps Ben needs all the emotional reserve he can get. Later, when he was 15 years old, he joined high school. . Tel: (662 . 2 min read. 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. Nor does her grandmother talk about her fathers death much. Cementing his status as The Nicest Guy in Rock, Dave Grohl pulled a 16-hour shift over the weekend cooking food for 500 homeless people in Los Angeles. Now my stepfather is one of a handful of Black folks around town who give informal tours of Philadelphias civil-rights history. He established the James Earl Chaney Foundation to preserve his brothers memory, but he wants more. He had that real, slow, Southern demeanor, definitely not New York., But Ben never talked about his brothers murder to his friends. Angela Lewis, a nurse, has four kids and is married to a police officer. They came back in 1994, to move Jewels mom home to Mississippi after shed fallen ill. About a decade after the McDonalds returned, Jewel got a phone call from Jim Prince, the editor and publisher of the local newspaper, inviting her to a meeting regarding the upcoming 40th anniversary of the murders. Mrs. Chaney was the last witness for the prosecution at Mr. Killens trial. President Lyndon Johnson ordered the FBIto assist local law enforcement officers in the search for the missing men. Resident of Latonia, KY. Special thanks to Rohan Brown and Meagan T. for Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid. View Source Share Save to Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Memorials Region North America USA Mississippi Ben wants the men responsible for his brothers death to be charged with murder. Both were going to investigate a church burning and Ben wanted to go. When you buy a book using a link on this page, we receive a commission. Pleasant Cemetery, Pulaski County, Kentucky. Ben rode often with his older brother and Schwerner. But his brother sensed that people were out to get him. I was charged and convicted primarily because I would not tell after the acts were committed I didnt know the acts were going to be committed ahead of time. .". His family started receiving death threats over the phone. In 1963 he began working in the Meridian office of the Congress on Racial Equality, or CORE. The men pulled over and Price forced them into his patrol car; another Klansman took the wheel of the station wagon. He finally rested his head on the right shoulder of his mother, Fannie Lee. .". A native of Meridian, he was once suspended from high school for wearing an NAACP badge. They are the stewards of this nations civil rights, and I fear that our history might die with them. But she would not let him. Baley Cheney. But she would never say a word about who she was. Access is free so discover James Chaney's story today. He was a security guard at a mall near her home. In the center of town, the men pulled over to change a tire. Black prisoners respected and protected him because of his brothers death. 900 Earl Frye Blvd Ste A. Amory, MS, 38821. Nothing but cowards. The infamous poster circulated after the three civil rights workers were missing shows Chaney staring at the camera with a stoic, almost glazed, look on his face. Few know about the anger that followed Bens tears; the murder spree that claimed the lives of three white people; his 13 years in prison; and his eventual return to Mississippi to seek justice for his brother. Finally, on August 4, 1964, their bodies were found buried on the secluded property of a Klansman. All that was ever found of him were a pair of shoes, his shirt and a watch, she told The Courier Post. What a legend. 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. Klansmen returned later that night and set fire to Mount Zion, burning it down completely. From this point, the details diverge depending on whose version of events you hear. We havent opened up and talked about it to heal.. Georgia Rush and one of her sons, John Thomas, were also beaten. The disappearance of the civil-rights workers created a national uproar. But he acts nothing like the sensitive 12-year-old who allowed the entire world to witness his grief. They adopted a son, James Cagney, Jr., in 1941, and then a daughter, Cathleen "Casey" Cagney. 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. If I dont move fast enough, hes already moved on. 2:12 PM EDT, Sat June 28, 2014. "When I was a child, there was a concerted effort by my family to not let people know because of the danger.". James Chaney is organizing this fundraiser. "I tell them, 'You can be great. The McDonalds first lived in Syracuse, New York, and then Cleveland, places where they had some family. He stands on a desolate hilltop before a marble headstone printed with the name James Earl Chaney.. May 24, 2007. James Chaney said he's the type of guy who knows when his time is up. She responds with words she never heard as a child while her mom and stepfather worked endless shifts as waiters. For those wishing to attend the service . That's why on Monday, the 52-year-old Chaney announced his resignation after eight seasons as the head football coach at. 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. My reading about him today is like reading about a stranger., She remembers reading about her father in high school history class. Honored to have Peadbo selected as the winner among some amazing startups this weekend at RoadPitch!! 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. Sullivan says he only found out about it through others. 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. He stayed there for five years but admitted he was an indifferent student. Ben became an activist like his brother. A thing like thats worth A new volunteer named Andrew Goodman, a Jewish college student who was also from New York, asked to go too. At the top of the headstone is a small picture of the deceased. Nonviolence seemed naive to them. June 28, 2021 / 7:52 AM He was predeceased by : his parents, Rollie Chaney and Mary . A Warner Bros. She told me, 'They treated my son like he was a dog in the street. Photos courtesy Chaney family; graphic Glamour magazine Moore, 46, runs the Community Development Partnership, which is responsible for tourism in the city and the county. Their wives washing their clothes, fixing their meals, laying beside them in bed every night, thousands of nights, as if nothing happened. 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. The killing of three civil-rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964 changed America. Im an old man now, he says ruefully. A trip for ice cream. This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Four years later, he returned to Mississippi to help in an investigation into the suspicious deaths of several young black men found dead in Mississippi jail cells. ", She finds fulfillment in working with youth, helping others who need help. Billy Tom Chaney, 87, of Victoria, passed away on Thursday, October 29, 2020 in Port Lavaca. That summer changed America, said Bruce Watson, author of the 2010 book, Freedom Summer. Nineteen men. . But today, if you want to know what happened here, you need to know who to ask. He had driven at high speeds with no lights on, running from Cecil Price on back dirt roads. Just to hear her calling him Dad and know how hes always there for her thats the only time I had that sense of longing,. Each year, she meets with those interested in learning more about the civil rights movement. He is the owner of the hotel room prison in which Joe Doucett is held captive. McDonald turned 18 six days before the Klan burned down her church. I dont think he can sit still. Join Facebook to connect with James Chaney and others you may know. Ben Chaney trudges through the snow in a wind-swept cemetery in Meridian, Mississippi, until he finally reaches the place. Edited by Honza Pokorny < honza@pokorny.ca > June 6, 2019 in Canada. 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. A devout Christian who sings in her church choir, Angela talks easily about her loss. James Earl Chaney joined in. Its disturbing and painful, as the truth can be. For the past 13 years, he has spent much of his time traveling back to Mississippi to campaign for the retrial of the men accused in his brothers murder. Chaney, along with Goodman and Schwerner, received a posthumous, "Neshoba: The Price of Freedom," www.neshonafilm.net, This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 07:30. Lately, a remedy for this worry has been to turn on a recorder when Obbie gets to telling a story, or when hes with his brothers, or when my great-aunt recalls what it was like to leave Mississippi for Chicago only to come back home. Edgar Ray Killen, found guilty in 2005 of three counts of manslaughter in the 'Mississippi Burning,' murders, is still in prison. That system, however, still has not worked for Ben. We have to look for ways to make the system work for us.. My grandmother is still hurt, she says. This is what the grown-up Angela Lewis constantly pictures in her mind: Murderers sitting down to dinner with their families, saying grace beforehand. Lon Chaney Jr. Johnson: Donald Cook: Dean Larry Benson: Charles Dingle: Hes no longer the 12-year-old boy sitting on the front porch waiting for his big brother. A lot of young African-American males in their teens and early 20s were looking for an opportunity to do something. Like many white people his age, Moore didnt learn about the history of Mount Zion until he was an adult. It always sounds like they're burying St. Peter," Lewis says. 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. CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. Sullivan says Ben still has a sense of mission. All had been shot, and Mr. Chaney had been beaten almost beyond recognition. If you never cleanse yourself of this and own it, he continued, its just there.. Samuel David Jasper Chaney 08 Nov 1854 Ashley, Washington, Illinois, United States - 24 Dec 1942 managed by Natalie Cotton last edited 21 Nov 2022 Charles William Chaney 16 Dec 1883 Pocahontas, Randolph, Arkansas, United States - 24 Sep 1955 Angie R. Chaney 1970s managed by Angie Chaney 4 Physicians And Surgeons Clinic. "They're my last living links to my dad.". There are different versions of what happened next. (1957-01-23) (aged 24) Tyler-Goodwyn Bridge. Cheney, the No. She married James Maynard on 10 March 1808, in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States. Price pulled up beside them. James Chaney said he's the type of guy who knows when his time is up. He never returned. 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. Cause of death. He had just turned 89 the previous week on January 21. 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. Skip Ancestry main menu Main Menu. The museum manages to be both in the center of town and tucked away, and has been open since the 90s. Ben Chaney, slumped over, weeps at the August 7, 1964, funeral of his brother, James Earl Chaney. Early Life. But I never want to infringe on that particular story, because it is sacred. For his early education, Chaney enrolled with a Catholic school. All you have to do is have a passion for something and do it with all your heart. Only the state government could have brought murder charges, and Mississippi had not pursued the case. View the profiles of people named James Chaney. father. Alabama River, Montgomery County, Alabama. She ends each speech with a song, the words of Martin Luther King serving as lyrics: "If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can show somebody he is traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain.". Mark J. Chaney, Sr., 90, of Bovina, Mississippi, passed away July 8, 2022, at St. Dominic Hospital. He even organized one demonstration in New York that ended in a riot. .' He walked like he just got off a horse. Other Affiliations: Middle Tennessee State University, Global Studies and Cultural Geography, Faculty Member. "Every time I think about it, I get a knot in my stomach," she says. He was the first born son to Ben Chaney Sr. and Fannie Lee. As he talks about his brother, Bens voice softens and his sense of humor bubbles to the surface. On September 28, 1922, Cagney married dancer Frances Willard "Billie" Vernon, with whom he remained for the rest of his life. She was supposed to be in the sanctuary that night, but she had decided to watch her niece instead. Tripadvisor names the world's top 25 beaches, three in the U.S. James Earl Chaney didnt wait long to plunge into the movement. The murders became international news. 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. Leave your condolences to the family on this memorial page or send flowers to show you care. 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. It was only when she became a mother that she really missed her father. This is what the spiritual Angela Lewis has reconciled in her heart: "God requires I love everybody, so I'm not angry at them. While there, he discovered that his last name both helped and hurt him. My stepdad floored the gas pedal. I never killed anyone, he says calmly. James Earl Chaney, often called J.E., had stopped by with his friend and colleague, Michael Mickey Schwerner, for some homemade biscuits. It was a smoldering intensity. 2023 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. James Chaney. An argument between former Vice-President Dick Cheney's two daughters about gay marriage has gone public. The red-brick building sits a ways back from the road, accessible by a semicircle driveway. Six decades ago, the Klan ambushed Black churchgoers here as they left a meeting. . 2021 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. / CBS/AP. This snapshot of James Chaney's life was captured by the 1940 U.S. Census. But the 18 defendants had been charged with civil-rights violations, not murder. "It was the 31st of August in 1962 that 18 of us traveled 26 miles to the county courthouse in Indianola to try to register to become first-class citizens. The message resonated with Ben, who was now a young man. The violence stuck with him. ', "I would like some closure for her. Obbie showed me the 200-year-old post-oak trees that he said mark where sharecroppers like his parents lived in tenant houses, and the woodsy, overgrown area where, he told me, formerly enslaved people are buried, their markers missing or mossy and tilted. Though they are old, he wants them tried again. But Ben never found his footing at Walden. 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. Federal agents ultimately found the three bodies they were looking for on Old Jolly Farm, buried in an earthen dam. "It was like going to funerals and listening to the eulogies. Theres another thing to choose Her oldest son, James, became involved in the civil rights movement early in his life. He kept a hip flask while filming all of his movies. Young black civil rights workers in groups such as Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, and CORE invited hundreds of white college students to come to Mississippi to help them register black voters. He served in both the First World War and Second World War. 8: Son: Billy Chaney. Chaney, who coached the Lightning from 2015 until his resignation on Dec. 12, will reunite with former North Fort. Marriage, 1745, Virginia. I rang the bell and a volunteer, an older white woman, came to greet me. Listen aint you heard the news 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. Not one person, however, has ever been successfully convicted of murder in the deaths of the three civil rights workers. "When I get on a mission, I leave my kids in the background.". daughter. But he doesnt know for sure. His mother, a domestic servant, was protective; his father, a plasterer, left his mother when James was in his mid-teens. Her sons murder was not Mrs. Chaneys first experience with the disappearance of a family member. 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. He spoke around Harlem about the need for black people to train themselves in self-defense. Chaney is the secondary antagonist in the 2013 film Oldboy, based on the 2003 film of the same name. There are those who are dead, yet will live forever. 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 . But by the time she figured that out, he was dead.. Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 PM, Thursday, June 18th, 2020 at Sunset Memorial. The cause of death was T.B. He got his associates degree in prison and later got his bachelors degree from John Jay College. Birth of James Cheney. The two had five children, two sons named James Earl Chaney, and Ben Chaney Jr., and three daughters named Barbara, Janice, and Julia. Two cars of Klansmen had been following the station wagon. You gotta stand up in the morning and line up for the count. The others were Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner from New York City. It is special. He sticks to arranging tours on a case-by-case basis. {edtoal.School pathologbt.t. I know what it's like to grow up without a father. Five months after the murders, McDonald married her husband, Cleo. But them doggone hungry blues, I do not sell, rent or share your email wtih any 3rd party. A few weeks before I went on the tour with my stepfather, I visited the PhiladelphiaNeshoba County Historical Museum, a white wooden house off a narrow street that dead-ends in the woods. James Chaney Obituary. Personal Life. James Sullivan, another black high school student, met Ben during that time. Read: Ending 50 years of silence about Mississippis Freedom Summer. Civil rights colleagues worried they had been nabbed by the KKK. A private autopsy performed later indicated that the Klansmen had beaten Chaney severely before they killed him. James Chaney in Indiana. "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. Four white people were shot to death and two wounded during a murder spree that crossed Florida, North and South Carolina. One man, Bud Cole, suffered a beating so brutal that he walked with a limp for the rest of his life. But it was different now: no nonviolent struggle. You gotta line up and wait for mail. '", Next post: More Good Coverage Of The Edgar Ray Killen Trial, Previous post: Ten Living Suspects In The Neshoba Murders Case, Folks Ive got them hungry blues Discovery Company. 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. Liz Cheney, a candidate for a US Senate seat, told Fox News Sunday she believed in the. But Ben keeps close to Mississippi. He never got to meet his 11-day-old daughter. 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. He was baptized eight years ago and is the father of a 16-year-old girl, Amelia. Some of those originally arrested, including Lawrence Rainey and Cecil Price, have died Price fell from a cherry picker and Rainey died of throat cancer. 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. Hes experienced almost every angle of the legal system imaginable. 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. The remarks didnt directly name whom the state might charge with murder, but everyone knew they referred to Killen. 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. It was fun, and he felt safe with his brother. But the lack of infrastructure also meant that, for years, Jewel wasnt paid for her time, beyond voluntary donations. But prison officials tried to break him psychologically because of his name. Only recently has she begun charging a small fee. As of last week, they are now available for viewing by the public at William F. Winter Archives and History Building in Jackson. What happened next sent Ben to prison. I sat at the kitchen counter as he washed dishes. Witnesses said Killen then went to a Philadelphia funeral home as an alibi while the fatal attack occurred. As a teenager, James had been participating in freedom rides to integrate bus travel, and his disapproving father had disciplined him for doing so. But few who pass her on the street know her story. Besides working in a bakery, Mrs. Chaney did odd jobs. 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. view all James Cheney's Timeline. I had heard there was nothing in the museum about Mount Zion or the three civil-rights workers, and wanted to see for myself. Its the towns pride, and part of the reason Philadelphias tagline is Our fair city., From the KING issue: Jesmyn Ward on how racism is built into the very bones of Mississippi, At the end of the tour, I asked my guide if maybe I had missed the Mount Zion exhibit. He is serving a 60-year sentence. Seven members of the Klan were convicted of federal civil rights violations. "My fear is I'm going to lose her before I find out everything I want to know about my dad," she says. So did James Chaney, a Black CORE staffer and native of Meridian whod been working with Schwerner that summer. . Moore told me that hes often the middleman connecting visitors who call ahead with guides like Obbie. It was like going to a foreign land, he says. Cagney was a very private man, and while he was more than . Dave Dennis, Freedom Summer of 1964, and the Eulogy for James Chaney. In addition to my stepdad, one of the people Moore often calls is Jewel McDonald, the daughter of Georgia Rush, the woman who was beaten in the attack on Mount Zion in 1964. The third man, James Chaney, was a local African American man who had joined CORE in 1963. Obbie is of the opinion that if something needs to get done, especially something as important as ensuring that the legacy of your community and family doesnt get erased, youd better first employ yourself to do something about it. We proceeded down the two-lane road, a stretch of which has been renamed Goodman Chaney Schwerner Memorial Highway. Mississippi then-Attorney General Jim Hood officially closed the investigation in 2016. I dont know if Im angry at them as individuals or as a group, he says. Bens name helped him win support on the outside. 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