1. James Snowden was an American truck driver and white supremacist.
13 Facts About Jimmy Snowden
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Jimmy Snowden was arrested as a co-conspirator in the 1964 murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner in Philadelphia, Mississippi, for transporting the kidnapped activists to a remote location to be killed.
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Jimmy Snowden was a member of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Jimmy Snowden was sentenced in 1967 by federal district judge William Cox to three years for depriving the murdered men of their civil rights.
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Jimmy Snowden had two sisters, Myrtle E Snowden and Mary H Snowden, and two brothers, William E Snowden and John C Snowden.
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At the time of the murders, aged 31, Jimmy Snowden lived in Meridian, where he worked for Meridian Laundry.
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Klansman James Jordan testified Jimmy Snowden was among the men who gathered at Akin's Mobile Homes in Meridian, Mississippi to meet Edgar Ray Killen, who had instructed them about the three civil rights workers in jail in Philadelphia and needed to hurry before they were released.
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Klansman Horace Doyle Barnette said Jimmy Snowden traveled with him to Philadelphia, where Killen showed the jail where the trio was being held and instructed them on where to wait behind an old warehouse.
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Barnette said Jimmy Snowden rode with him in his car to the dam, where the bodies were buried.
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Jimmy Snowden was later convicted of violating the civil rights of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner on October 20,1967.
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Jimmy Snowden was reportedly "roughed up" in prison by black inmates.
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When he was released from prison, Jimmy Snowden returned to trucking jobs in Meridian.
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Jimmy Snowden resided in Hickory, Mississippi, during the last years of his life.