Ben Chaney, Brother of Civil Rights Slaying Victim
“I want to thank God that today we saw Preacher Killen in a prison uniform taken from the courthouse to the jailhouse.”
-Ben Chaney, younger brother of black Mississippian James Chaney, one of three civil rights workers who was slain in 1964. Chaney was reacting to the 60-year prison sentence given Thursday (June 23) to former Ku Klux Klansman and preacher Edgar Ray Killen for his role in the case. He was quoted by The Washington Post.
