| LC control no. | n 2002026193 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Killen, Edgar Ray |
| Associated place | Philadelphia (Miss.) |
| Birth date | 1925-01-17 |
| Death date | 2018-01-11 |
| Place of death | Parchman (Miss.) |
| Field of activity | Civil rights workers--Crimes against |
| Affiliation | Mississippi State Penitentiary Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) |
| Found in | Back to Mississippi, 2002: bk. p. 7 etc. (Edgar Ray Killen; now [as of spring 2002] in his eighties) 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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