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Fannie Lee Chaney (née Roberts; September 4, 1921 – May 22, 2007) was an American baker turned civil rights activist after her son James Chaney was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan during the 1964 Freedom Summer rides in Mississippi.
May 24, 2007 · 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 Klan in...
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...
Jun 28, 2014 · He finally rested his head on the right shoulder of his mother, Fannie Lee. That was the first time most people would see Ben, the younger brother of James Earl Chaney, one of three civil...
Jun 18, 2007 · Fannie Lee Chaney, the mother of James Chaney who was killed in Mississippi with two other civil rights activists, vowed to continue the struggle for racial justice in her home state. She announced that her 12-year-old son, Ben, would take his brother's place in the movement and urged people to visit Meridian to see the reality of racial oppression.
May 2, 2024 · The mothers are Fannie Lee Chaney, the mother of James, a 21-year old black activist from Mississippi. Anne Schwerner, the mother of Michael, a 25 year old Jewish activist from Westchester. NY....
May 24, 2007 · Fannie Lee Chaney, the mother of one of three civil-rights workers killed in the “Mississippi Burning” case in 1964, has died, her son said Wednesday.
