Killen, Edgar Ray
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Birth Date
- 1925-01-17
Death Date
- 2018-01-11
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation End: 2018
- Source: New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 16, 2018
- Organization: Mississippi State Penitentiary
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Associated Locale
- Parchman (Miss.)
Field of Activity
(lcsh) Civil rights workers--Crimes against
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Sources
- found: Back to Mississippi, 2002:bk. p. 7 etc. (Edgar Ray Killen; now [as of spring 2002] in his eighties)
- found: New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 16, 2018(in obituary published Jan. 12: Edgar Ray Killen; b. Edgar Ray Killen, Jan. 17, 1925; d. Thursday night [Jan. 11, 2018], in prison in Parchman, Miss., aged 92; 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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Change Notes
- 2002-06-04: new
- 2018-01-16: revised
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