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The '''Silver Dollar Group''' was an offshoot of the [[Ku Klux Klan]] [[white nationalism|white nationalist]]
The group killed an African American man, Frank Morris, by arson in [[Ferriday, Louisiana]] for alleged flirting with white women, and is suspected in two car bombings of [[NAACP]] leaders in Natchez, Mississippi, George Metcalfe and [[Wharlest Jackson]].<ref name="google2">{{cite book|title=The FBI and the KKK: A Critical History|author=Newton, M.|date=2005|isbn=9781476605104|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YcOSCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA151|page=151|accessdate=January 6, 2016}}</ref> Morris had a shoe repair shop in Ferriday, and died after his shoe repair shop was burned. The group is also suspected in the disappearance and murder of an African American employee of the Shamrock Motel, Joseph Edwards. Some members of local law enforcement, including Concordia Parish Sheriff Department deputy [[Noah W. Cross #Deputy Frank DeLaughter|Frank DeLaughter]], were members of the Silver Dollar Group.<ref name="google2"/>
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