Fannie Lee Chaney, 84, mother of slain civil rights worker

Posted: Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 4:31 pm

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 Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964, died last week in Willingboro, N.J. She was 84. … Read full obituary