Mother of slain civil-rights worker in "Mississippi Burning" case will be laid to rest beside son

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT/AP: Mom Burial Next to Civil - Rights Worker
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 29, 2007

MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) -- The mother of a civil-rights worker killed in the 1964 ''Mississippi Burning'' case will be buried next to her son on Saturday, more than 40 years after she left the state because of death threats.

Fannie Lee Chaney, 84, died May 22 in New Jersey. She had lived to see a reputed Klan leader convicted two years earlier in the killings of her son and two other young men.

Her funeral will be held at the First Union Baptist Church, Clark's Memorial Funeral Home confirmed Tuesday. It is the same sanctuary where she had mourned her son James Chaney.

James Chaney, a black man, was killed on June 21, 1964, in central Mississippi's Neshoba County, along with fellow civil rights workers Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, two white men from New York. The three had been looking into the torching of a black church and helping to register black voters during what was known as Freedom Summer.

Their killings, and early efforts to prosecute the suspects, were portrayed in the 1988 movie ''Mississippi Burning.''...

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Chaney-Burial.html

[CatWoman]

1. every time I watch that movie

I get mad as hell.

and then I get an attitude.

RIP, Mrs. Chaney.

you did good. you raised a caring, courageous son. too bad he lost his life pursuing his passions.

[DeepModem Mom]

2. One of my favorite movies ever. nt

[hlthe2b]

3. Yes... it is one wrenching movie....

Thank God it got made... Should be among several films that high school students SHOULD see in school...