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First black student in Ferriday meets with klansman’s daughter 50 years after firebombing

First black student in Ferriday meets with klansman’s daughter 50 years after firebombing


FERRIDAY — On the night of Jan. 30, 1966, in the racially divided city of Ferriday, David Whatley, the first black student to attend the town’s all-white high school, awoke at his grandmother’s house to an attempted firebombing by a particularly violent division of the Ku Klux Klan, known as the Silver Dollar Group.

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The stories have received thanks from the family members of victims and have earned regional and national acclaim.


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