# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-chaney
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:01:37.822Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-chaney"
name: "James Chaney"
slug: "james-chaney"
description: "James Earl Chaney was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan on June 21, 1964. The others were Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner from New York City."
tagline: "American activist (1943-1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JamesChaney.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1943-05-30"
deathDate: "1964-06-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.91
  momentum:             10.95354703853951
  historical:           6.382582666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Chaney"
    title: "James Chaney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "جيمس شاني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Earl_Chaney"
    title: "James Earl Chaney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A9%B9%E5%A7%86%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E9%8C%A2%E5%B0%BC"
    title: "詹姆斯·錢尼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Chaney"
    title: "James Chaney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Chaney_(militant)"
    title: "James Chaney (militant)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2733240"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump