Fannie Chaney was born on 4 August 1921 in Okatibbee, Mississippi, USA. She was married to Ben Chaney. She died on 22 May 2007 in Willingboro, New Jersey, USA.
Mother of Slain Civil Rights Worker James Chaney, who was murdered
along with two other civil rights workers in rural Mississippi in 1964.
Their deaths were the topic of the film "Mississippi Burning".