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By Stanley NelsonConcordia SentinelPublished March 6, 2013 A half-century ago at the ice house on the main street of Fayette, Miss., a white Adams County …
The fatal shooting of Johnny Queen by Jasper Burchfield in Fayette, Miss. in 1965 Read More
Tommie Lee Jones (1936-2007) was a Klansman from Natchez, Miss., who became one of the earliest and most violent members of the secret Klan cell …
Ernest Gilbert was a leader in the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan who became a paid FBI informant in 1964. His identity was …
The White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi was one of the most violent Klan groups in the history of the United States. …
Jack Seale was a well-known Klansman in Natchez, Miss., who was a suspect in two murder cases, an alleged arsonist and later, an FBI informant. …
Deacons for Defense & Justice The Deacons for Defense & Justice was an organization of Black men formed in Louisiana during the Civil Rights-era to …
Robert ‘Shotgun’ Fuller: The 1960 Murder of Albert Pitts Jr., David Lee Pitts, Earnest McFarland and Alfred ‘Monk’ Marshall and Wounding of Charlie Willis In …
Victims: Denver Smith and Leonard “Douglas” Brown Background In the fall of 1972 at Southern University in Baton Rouge, students began protesting for better school …
James Ford Seale was a violent Klansman from Franklin County, Miss., who was convicted in 2007 in the 1964 murders of two Black teens. Seale …
Woodrow “Blue” Holloway was a Klansman from Ferriday and a member of the Silver Dollar Group. He earned his living as a heavy equipment operator. …
Homer Thomas “Buck” Horton was a Vidalia Klansman and purported member of the Silver Dollar Group. He was a suspect in the disappearance of Joseph …
The Morville Lounge, a brothel and illegal gambling operation in Concordia Parish during the 1960s, was the eventual downfall of Sheriff Noah Cross. The lounge …
Raleigh Jackson “Red” Glover, an employee at the Armstrong Tire Plant in Natchez, was the head of the Silver Dollar Group, a Klan offshoot dedicated …
Raymond “Scotty” Wright was a Klansman from Clayton, LA, who in 1965 was elected Exalted Cyclops of the Clayton klavern of the Ferriday-Clayton unit of …
L.C. Murray was a Klansmen in Natchez, Miss., during the 1960s when he became Secretary of the United Klans of America, Mississippi Realm. Murray was …
The Silver Dollar Group was one of the most secretive Klan groups in the United States during the mid-1960s when the FBI used informants to …
Kenneth Norman Head was a member of the Silver Dollar Group Klan and a close friend of Raleigh Jackson “Red” Glover, head of the SDG. …
Joseph Edwards disappeared in Concordia Parish in July 1964. FBI records, a lengthy investigation by the Concordia Sentinel in Ferriday, LA, a book by LSU …
Jewel Lee Burt was a Mississippi Klansman who lived near Fayette in Jefferson County. He was employed at the Armstrong Tire Plant in Natchez. Burt …
James Horace “Sonny” Taylor was a Klansman from Harrisonburg, LA, who became an informant for the FBI. In 1967, Taylor told his FBI handler that …
James Lee Scarborough was a member of the Silver Dollar Group and one of several suspects in the 1964 murder of Ferriday shoe shop owner …
James “Jim” Lee, also known as “Red,” was a member of the Silver Dollar Group and a suspect in several wrecking crew acts of violence, …
James “Bill” Blaney was a Klansmen who was recruited into the Silver Dollar Group by the SDG’s leader, Raleigh Jackson “Red” Glover. Blaney and two …
Ernest Buchanan Parker was a Natchez, Miss., Klansman who informants said was a member of the Silver Dollar Group, a secret Klan cell believed responsible …
Frank Morris was 51 years old when Klansmen torched his shoe shop in Ferriday, LA, on December 10, 1964. He had been sleeping in a …
Elden Glenn Hester was a White Knight in Franklin County, Miss., when he was recruited into the Silver Dollar Group by Raleigh Jackson “Red” Glover, …
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 …
E.L. McDaniel was Klan leader from Natchez, Miss., who claimed to be the first Mississippi man inducted into the Louisiana-based Original Knights of the Ku …
E.D. Morace was a Klansman from Ferriday, LA, who became an FBI informant. One Klansman described Morace as the head “hatchet man” for the Ferriday …
Earl Hodges was a mechanic in Eddiceton, Miss., killed by Klansmen in 1965 over fear that he was going to tell authorities about wrecking projects …
Earcel Boyd was a member of the Silver Dollar Group and a statewide officer in the Louisiana Realm of the United Klans of America. Two …
Donald Holland was an operator of a feed mill in Meadville, Miss., and purported member of the Ku Klux Klan. FBI agents questioned Holland following …
In 1962, two Black men – Curtis Harris and Wilber Lee Henderson – were beaten by five Concordia Parish police officers, including Ferriday policemen Frank …