http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/price&bowers.htm WebAug 6, 2015 · Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price approached the civil rights workers while they changed a tire on the car by the side of the road. The Deputy Sheriff alleged that the car had been speeding, arrested the workers, and placed them all in jail – holding the two passengers for “investigation.”
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WebMay 6, 2001 · As the Deputy Sheriff for Neshoba County Mississippi, he led three Civil Rights activists, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, into the … WebThe Ku Klux Klan organizer Edgar Ray Killen, along with Cecil Price (then deputy sheriff of Neshoba County), had gathered a group of men who hunted down and killed the three civil rights workers. The Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders galvanized the nation and helped bring about the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. intensify tighten
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WebDec 4, 1988 · Another three years passed before some of those responsible, Neshoba County Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price and six others, including Klan Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers, were convicted of... WebNYWTS - BIOG--Price, Cecil--Mississippi Sheriff [item] [P&P] Source Collection New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) … WebJun 21, 2011 · When Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney, a young Black man, were coming back from a trip to Philadelphia, Mississippi, deputy sheriff Cecil Price, who was also a Klan member, pulled them over for speeding. intension bar