Silver Dollar Group: Difference between revisions

The '''Silver Dollar Group''' was an offshoot of the [[Ku Klux Klan]] [[white nationalism|white nationalist]] militant[[terrorist|terrorism]] group, composed of [[leaderless resistance]] cells that took up violent actions to support Klan goals. The group was largely found in Mississippi and Louisiana, and was named for their practice of identifying themselves by carrying a [[Dollar coin (United States)|silver dollar]]. The group is believed to have had only some twenty members.<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=The Ku Klux Klan and Related American Racialist and Antisemitic Organizations: A History and Analysis|author=Quarles, C.L.|date=1999|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786406470|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fhcnmDIQOW8C&pg=PA124|page=124|accessdate=January 6, 2016}}</ref> The group formed in 1964 at the Shamrock Motor Hotel in [[Vidalia, Louisiana]] by Raleigh Jackson "Red" Glover,<ref>[http://www.hannapub.com/concordiasentinel/frank_morris_murder/article_5d924188-4328-11e3-8269-001a4bcf6878.html Cold Case: James Ford Seale: A sheriff's election, nine deaths and a silver dollar]</ref> amidst dissatisfaction at the lack of forceful action by Klan groups in the region.