He, along with Michael Schwerner & Andrew Goodman, were killed in their
car on Rock Cut Road, right off Highway 19 in Neshoba County (near
Philadelphia) in June 1964. They were members of the Congress of Racial
Equality (CORE). Chaney was black and Goodman & Schwerner were white.
The movie,
Murder in Mississippi (1990), is based on this incident.
