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Benjamin McCants 1923 - 2004

Benjamin Mccants of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, NC was born on July 6, 1923, and died at age 81 years old on September 1, 2004.
Benjamin Mccants
Fayetteville, Cumberland County, NC 28314
July 6, 1923
September 1, 2004
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Benjamin Mccants' History: 1923 - 2004

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  • 07/6
    1923

    Birthday

    July 6, 1923
    Birthdate
    Unknown
    Birthplace
  • Ethnicity & Family History

    Negro, Citizen
  • Nationality & Locations

    Berkeley County, South Carolina United States
  • Early Life & Education

    Grammar School
  • Military Service

    Military serial#: 34647612 Enlisted: December 19, 1945 in Ft Bragg North Carolina Military branch: Quartermaster Corps Rank: Private First Class, Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, And Enlisted Men) Terms of enlistment: Enlistment For Hawaiian Department
  • 09/1
    2004

    Death

    September 1, 2004
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
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In 1923, in the year that Benjamin McCants was born, the Teapot Dome scandal became the subject of an investigation by Senator Walsh and severely damaged the reputation of the Harding administration. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall was convicted of accepting bribes from oil companies and became the first Cabinet member to go to prison. At the time, the Teapot Dome scandal was seen as "greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics".
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In 1964, at the age of 41 years old, Benjamin was alive when in June, three young civil rights workers - Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi - were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi. Working with "Freedom Summer", they were registering African-Americans to vote in the Southern states. Their bodies were found two months later. Although it was discovered that the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office and the Philadelphia, Mississippi Police Department were involved, only 7 men were convicted and served less than six years.
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