Cecil Price

Sheriff, Deceased Person

1938 – 2001

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Who was Cecil Price?

Cecil Ray Price was linked to the murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. At the time of the murders, he was 26 years old and a deputy sheriff in Neshoba County, Mississippi. He was also a member of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

Although never charged with the murders Price was convicted in October 1967 of violating the 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. Following his release from prison he returned to Philadelphia, Mississippi and worked a variety of jobs. Cecil Price died following a fall from a piece of equipment at his job on May 6, 2001.

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Born
Apr 15, 1938
Profession
Lived in
  • Mississippi
Died
May 6, 2001

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on July 23, 2013

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