Within a week, 25 people had died and 130 people had been hospitalized. In 1976, Laverne was 62 years old when on August 4th, a mysterious illness struck an American Legion convention in Philadelphia. 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. Their bodies were found two months later.
Working with "Freedom Summer", they were registering African-Americans to vote in the Southern states.
In 1964, at the age of 50 years old, Laverne 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. It took 20 months of fighting for the Allies to reach the northern borders of Italy. After the Armistice was made public on September 8th, Germany attacked and occupied Italy. Under the terms of the Armistice, Italy surrendered to the Allied Powers. In 1943, at the age of 29 years old, Laverne was alive when on September 3rd, the Armistice of Cassibile was signed in Sicily. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. In 1914, in the year that Laverne I Cooney was born, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Laverne's lifetime.
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