Criminal. As the Deputy Sheriff for Neshoba County Mississippi, he led three Civil Rights activists, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, into the hands of the Ku Klux Klan, who murdered them in 1964. He was a member of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He had arrested the three Civil Rights activists that afternoon, putting them in jail, denying their requests to make a phone call, and about 10 PM gave them to the Ku Klux Klan. He was a candidate for sheriff in 1967, but lost. The State of Mississippi never brought murder charges against him, but Price was convicted in 1967 of violation of Civil Rights of the three victims. He was sentenced to a six-year prison term and served four and a half years at the Sandstone Federal Penitentiary in Minnesota. He died from an on-the-job injury after falling from a lift in an equipment rental store. The 1988 movie, "Mississippi Burning" was loosely based on this case.
Criminal. As the Deputy Sheriff for Neshoba County Mississippi, he led three Civil Rights activists, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, into the hands of the Ku Klux Klan, who murdered them in 1964. He was a member of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He had arrested the three Civil Rights activists that afternoon, putting them in jail, denying their requests to make a phone call, and about 10 PM gave them to the Ku Klux Klan. He was a candidate for sheriff in 1967, but lost. The State of Mississippi never brought murder charges against him, but Price was convicted in 1967 of violation of Civil Rights of the three victims. He was sentenced to a six-year prison term and served four and a half years at the Sandstone Federal Penitentiary in Minnesota. He died from an on-the-job injury after falling from a lift in an equipment rental store. The 1988 movie, "Mississippi Burning" was loosely based on this case.
Bio by: Linda Davis
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