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Ben Chester White

By: Caleb Long

Ben Chester White was killed by 3 Klansmen, James Jones, Claude Fuller, and Ernest Avants. They killed him because they wanted to kill a black man, it didn't matter who, so Martin Luther King would come and they could assassinate him.

They asked him to help find a lost dog. He went and they went to Homochitto National Forest and shot him in the chest. Avants was the one who shot him and then he ordered Fuller to shoot him also. He shot him in the face with a shotgun.

When did this happen? It happened on June, 10 1966 near Natchez, Mississippi.

Why is this important? I think this is important because it was a pointless murder. They murdered a black man, just because they wanted to lure someone else there. They could have done countless other things to lure him there. But they decided to kill an innocent man who thought he was helping them. The murder didn't even make Martin Luther King come there.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=18836422

http://www.vrbo.com/291820

http://nuweb9.neu.edu/civilrights/ben-chester-white/

Ben Chester White was a sharecropper. He lived in Natchez, Mississippi. He mostly kept to himself. Nobody ever had any complaints with him. He never took part in the Civil Rights' Movement.

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