Fannie Lee Chaney, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Fannie Lee Chaney

American civil rights activist

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1921

Date of Death: 22-May-2007

Profession: civil rights advocate

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Fannie Lee Chaney (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. After her son's murder, Chaney sued five restaurants in Meridian for racial discrimination.
She was fired from her job and could not find other work.
Crosses were burned on her lawn, and a firebomb intended for her family's house destroyed that of a neighbor.
She moved to New York City, finding work at a nursing home.
After 30 years, she retired and moved to New Jersey. In 2005 she testified for the State of Mississippi in the murder case against Edgar Ray Killen, one of her son's killers.
Killen was cleared of murder by the jury, but convicted of manslaughter and given a 60 years sentence, which he served until his death in January 2018.