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1. www.cnn.com › 2014/06/28 › us‘Mississippi Burning’ still smolders for one brother | CNN

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   Jun 28, 2014 · Ben Chaney, slumped over, weeps at the August 7, 1964, funeral of his brother, James Earl Chaney. Bettmann/CORBIS. Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from John Blake’s 2004 book “Children of ...

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3. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › the-lastingThe Lasting Impact of a Civil Rights Icon's Murder | Smithsonian

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   Life readers saw Ben Chaney with his eyes framed by prison bars. "He just looks scared," says Eppridge, who, after the weekly Life folded in 1972, went to work for Sports Illustrated.

4. www.nytimes.com › 1972/03/11 › archivesCHANEY CONVICTED IN COEDS' - The New York Times

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   Mar 11, 1972 · WEST.PALM BEACH, Fla., March 10—Ben Chaney Jr., a brother of James E. Chaney, the slain civil rights worker, was found guilty today of firstdegree murder in connection with the death of two ...

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     Ben Chaney, Jr. Born July 12, 1952- Died February 3, 2024 Ben was the youngest of five children born to Ben Chaney, Sr and Fannie Lee Chaney in Meridian, Ms.; three sisters, Barbara, Janice and Julia and an older brother James, who he absolutely adored and emulated from the moment he could talk and walk. They were a close-knit family who enjoyed each other’s company and Ben and his siblings loved playing pranks on one another and joking around the house. Ben’s world shattered in 1964 when his bi

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     Fannie Lee Chaney: Ben Is Going to Take His Big Brother's Place, 1964

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6. www.pbs.org › wgbh › americanexperienceRemembering the Neshoba Murders in Black and White

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   Ben Chaney speaks on the steps of the Neshoba County Courthouse in June 2007, during the 43rd annual memorial for his brother, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman. Credit: Ben ...

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   Feb 13, 2024 · The Andrew Goodman Foundation (AGF) is deeply saddened to announce the passing of Ben Chaney, brother of James Earl Chaney, on February 3, 2024. Our hearts go out to the Chaney family during this difficult time. James Earl Chaney, along with Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, was tragically murdered by the Ku Klux Klan for […]

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   What happened to Ben Chaney?

   • Ben Chaney had made plans to link up with his brother and Schwerner the night of June 21, and he was stunned when they never showed up. Soon, the Chaney household went into a state of shock. Ben’s mother would clean her house four and five times a day, bursting into tears without warning.

   A Burning Legacy - Los Angeles Times

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   Who is Ben Chaney?

   • 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. But Ben never found his footing at Walden. He stayed there for five years but admitted he was an indifferent student. He would often skip school to seek his education in Harlem.

   'Mississippi Burning' still smolders for one brother | CNN

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   Who was James Chaney?

   • One of three civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi in 1964 was James Chaney. His younger brother would never be the same As James Chaney's family awaited the drive to his burial, 12-year-old Ben gazed outward. "There were a dozen questions in that look," says photographer Bill Eppridge. Bill Eppridge

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   Why did Ben Chaney go to Mississippi?

   • But Ben keeps close to Mississippi. In 1989 he established the James Earl Chaney Foundation to stop vandalism of his brother’s grave. 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.

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9. www.theguardian.com › us-news › 2016'Mississippi Burning' civil rights case closed after 52 years

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   Jul 14, 2017 · Rita Schwerner Bender, the widow of slain civil rights worker Michael Schwerner, and Ben Chaney, the brother of slain civil rights worker James Chaney, hug each other after a jury convicted Edgar ...

10. www.latimes.com › archives › la-xpm-1989/06/15-vwA Burning Legacy : 25 Years Ago This Summer, 3 Murders in ...

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    Jun 15, 1989 · Ben Chaney had made plans to link up with his brother and Schwerner the night of June 21, and he was stunned when they never showed up. Soon, the Chaney household went into a state of shock.