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History > USA > Civil rights > White supremacist violence
Ku Klux Klan (K.K.K.)
Edgar Ray Killen 1925-2017
Mr. Killen [ left ] with the Neshoba County deputy sheriff Cecil Price in October 1967 in Meridian, Miss., where they awaited verdicts in the murders.
According to testimony, Sheriff Price had notified Mr. Killen that he was holding the three men, allowing time for Mr. Killen to gather fellow Klansmen to trap them.
Photograph: Jack Thornell Associated Press
Edgar Ray Killen, Convicted in ’64 Killings of Rights Workers, Dies at 92 NYT JAN. 12, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/
Edgar Ray Killen 1925-2017
former Klansman who was sentenced to a 60-year prison term in 2005 for arranging the murders of three young civil rights workers outside Philadelphia, Miss., in 1964 during the Freedom Summer drive to register Southern black voters
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Mr. Killen was convicted of state manslaughter charges 41 years to the day after James Earl Chaney, 21, a black man from Meridian, Miss., and two white New Yorkers, Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 24, disappeared in a death trap set by a local deputy sheriff and a gang of his fellow Ku Klux Klansmen.
He was prosecuted in one of the South’s major “atonement” trials, in which the Mississippi authorities revisited civil rights-era atrocities.
He was convicted of a crime that galvanized the civil rights movement, stamped the town of Philadelphia as an outpost of terror and inspired the 1988 Hollywood movie “Mississippi Burning,”
Mr. Killen was a founding member of the Klan in the Philadelphia area and its chief recruiter, according to the F.B.I.
He had been among 18 men tried in 1967 on federal charges of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Mr. Chaney, Mr. Goodman and Mr. Schwerner.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/12/
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