Last month, Julia Chaney-Moss accepted honors on behalf of her brother, James Earl Chaney, one of three civil rights workers killed in Mississippi in 1964. The Inquirer interviewed her about her life.
Julia Chaney speaks to the audience during the Underground Railroad Museum's “ A Celebration of Local Iconic Heroes/Sheroes” at Rowan College at Burlington County in Mount Laurel, N.J. on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024.The young civil rights activists — Chaney was Black and lived in Meridian, Miss.
“It was kind of a mixed neighborhood, although the neighbors didn’t mingle,” she later told The Inquirer. “That was the kind of environment we grew up in. Everybody minded their own business.”Central Postal Directory Battalion, an predominantly Black battalion of the Woman’s Army Corps , who served in Europe during World War II.There have been documentary films and televised movies made about the murders of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner.
On Saturday, June 20, Chaney and Schwerner, joined by Goodman, drove from Ohio to investigate the church burning. After visiting the church and meeting with church officials, the three men set out to drive back to Meridian, Sunday afternoon, on June 21. At the time, Chaney-Moss had recently graduated from nursing school and gotten married. She wasn’t living at home with her mother.
But her husband not only did not want to leave the state; he didn’t want her to work either. Chaney-Moss said she was restless and wanted to do more with her life.
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