james earl chaney
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Klansman Who Helped Plot the 1964 Deaths of 3 Civil Rights Workers Dead at 92
A former Klansman who was sentenced in 2005 to 60 years in prison for his role in the 1964 plot to abduct and kill three young civil rights workers during the Freedom Summer drive to register black voters died Thursday in a prison in Parchman, Miss. He was 92. The Mississippi Department of Corrections said…