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home : obituaries		July 31, 2010

1/17/2007 6:00:00 PM
Mabel Steele

Services were held Saturday for Mississippi civil rights pioneer Mabel Steele. She was 89.

Steele, of Philadelphia, died Jan. 9 in Rush Foundation Hospital. The cause of death was not immediately available.

Services were at 2 p.m. at Mount Zion United Methodist Church near Philadelphia.

Steele, along with her husband, Cornelius, worked closely with civil rights workers Michael Schwerner and James Chaney before the two, along with Andrew Goodman, were abducted on a rural road and murdered in 1964.

Steele, in a 2002 interview with The Clarion-Ledger newspaper of Jackson, said she was present the night Klansmen torched Mount Zion church in rural Neshoba County after they were unable to find the civil rights workers.

Former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was convicted in 2005 on three counts of manslaughter in the deaths and is currently serving a 60-year prison sentence.

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