Jimmy Snowden

Snowden was indicted on February 28, 1967. He was later convicted of violating the civil rights of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner on October 20, 1967. On December 29, 1967, Judge William Harold Cox sentenced Snowden to three years in federal prison. However, only two of the three years were spent with Snowden behind bars: he was at FCI Texarkana until December 1971 and then transferred to FCI Lompoc until his release on 29 August, 1972. Snowden was reportedly roughed up in prison by black inmates.

Snowden was a truck driver. In fact, when he was released from prison, Snowden returned to trucking jobs in Meridian. Snowden resided in Hickory, Mississippi, during the last years of his life. Snowden was married to Mary Joyce Green (1936-2013). They had one son, Davie Snowden and two daughters, Vicky L Snowden and Brenda Faye Snowden. Davie Snowden (1963), (son) was arrested for shoplifting in July 2013. Thomas Davie Snowden (1991) (grandson) arrested October 2012 fugitive.

Jimmy Snowden (September 21, 1933 – July 7, 2008), of Lauderdale County, Mississippi, was a conspirator and participant in the notorious murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1964. He was a member of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and was sentenced in 1967 by federal district judge William Cox to three years for his role in the crime. Jimmy Snowden had lived in Hickory, Mississippi. While reporting about the death of fellow trial defendant Olen Lovell Burrage on March 18, 2013, however, New York Times journalist Douglas Martin claimed that James T. Harris was the only surviving defendant who was tried for the murders, thus implying that Snowden had died by this point in time.