How Is Edgar Killen's Influence On The African American
Edgar Ray "Preacher" Killen is a former Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of three civil rights activists, who wouldn't be convicted for his crimes until 40 year after the murders took place. Edgar was the conductor of many all white supreme terrorism acts whose orders were carried out by the Klu Klux Klan. During the 1950’s and 1960’s is when the Civil Rights movement took place, while the African Americans were fighting for their lives the klan was fighting to stop them from getting their rights.
Edgar Ray Killen, a thirty-eight-year-old, ordained Baptist minister, was a saw mill owner outside of being a klan member and a former unsuccessful candidate for sheriff. Edgar pronounced his racist views into the public outside the men in the klan. The colored within his town would bare the racist slurs and comments from Edgar. The Klu Klux Klan was an all white extremist group that organized terrorism acts upon the blacks. Killen was one of the leaders of the group who organized the acts against the blacks. …show more content…
Mickey Schwerner known as “Goatee” was a civil rights leader who was a Jewish New Yorker.
Killen met with some local klans men to plan a trip to Mount Zion Church in Longdale, where they hoped to find and kill Schwerner. Instead of schwerner they only encountered local blacks that they beat badly. Killen received word from Price that Schwerner and the other two civil rights workers were being held in jail. Phone calls were made and recruits signed up for a trip that evening to Neshoba County. Killen and the other Klansmen murdered the three civil rights activist. James Chaney, 21, Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 24 were all killed in the mob of Klan members in
1964.
Wallace Miller, Killen's first klan recruit, ratted to the FBI about the murders. Killen was only one of nineteen men arrested on December 4, 1964. The courthouse pulled together an all white jury and convicted seven conspirators, including the deputy sheriff, and acquitted eight others. Killen had a hung jury 11-1, that one woman said she could never convict a preacher. In 2004 there was a reopening of the case and in 2005 Killen’s case was concluded and he was to serve 60 years imprisonment on account of three cases of manslaughter. Killen is expected to pass away in prison.
Edgar Ray Killen, a thirty-eight-year-old, ordained Baptist minister, was a saw mill owner outside of being a klan member and a former unsuccessful candidate for sheriff. Edgar pronounced his racist views into the public outside the men in the klan. The colored within his town would bare the racist slurs and comments from Edgar. The Klu Klux Klan was an all white extremist group that organized terrorism acts upon the blacks. Killen was one of the leaders of the group who organized the acts against the blacks. …show more content…
Mickey Schwerner known as “Goatee” was a civil rights leader who was a Jewish New Yorker.
Killen met with some local klans men to plan a trip to Mount Zion Church in Longdale, where they hoped to find and kill Schwerner. Instead of schwerner they only encountered local blacks that they beat badly. Killen received word from Price that Schwerner and the other two civil rights workers were being held in jail. Phone calls were made and recruits signed up for a trip that evening to Neshoba County. Killen and the other Klansmen murdered the three civil rights activist. James Chaney, 21, Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 24 were all killed in the mob of Klan members in
1964.
Wallace Miller, Killen's first klan recruit, ratted to the FBI about the murders. Killen was only one of nineteen men arrested on December 4, 1964. The courthouse pulled together an all white jury and convicted seven conspirators, including the deputy sheriff, and acquitted eight others. Killen had a hung jury 11-1, that one woman said she could never convict a preacher. In 2004 there was a reopening of the case and in 2005 Killen’s case was concluded and he was to serve 60 years imprisonment on account of three cases of manslaughter. Killen is expected to pass away in prison.