Browse Items (1 total) Tags: Civil Rights; Mississippi legal history; Murder Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Sort by: Title Creator Date Added FBI Photograph of Ernest Avants Ernest Avants was a Klansman who was convicted in 2003 for the murder of Ben Chester White, a 67-year-old farmhand in Adams County, Miss., who was slain in 1966. Tags: Civil Rights; Mississippi legal history; Murder