Lawrence A. Rainey
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title:
Lawrence A. Rainey
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Lawrence Andrew Rainey Sr. was an American police officer and white supremacist who served as Sheriff of Neshoba County, Mississippi, from 1963 to 1968. He gained notoriety for his alleged involvement in the June 1964 murders of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. He was accused of aiding and abetting members of the Ku Klux Klan in the murders by having his officers keep watch over the men's position in town. Rainey was a member of Mississippi's White Knig
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Sheriff of Neshoba County, MS, implicated in murders of civil rights workers in June 1964
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_A._Rainey
date created:
2005-06-21T23:33:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T05:42:00Z
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