Armstrong Rubber Company, Natchez, Mississippi
On February 27, 1967, Wharlest Jackson, the treasurer of the local NAACP chapter, was killed by a car bomb left by Klansmen, shortly after he received a promotion to a position formerly reserved for whites.
His son, Wharlest Jackson, Jr., heard the blast from his home nearby, and rushed to the scene to find his father dead in the road.
It is believed that Jackson was murdered by the Silver Dollar Group, a particularly violent sect of Klansmen who dealt in explosives in the Natchez, MS-Ferriday, LA corridor. No one has been convicted for this crime, but the FBI is currently investigating what they refer to as WHARBOMB and community and family members erected a historical marker in 2011.
His son, Wharlest Jackson, Jr., heard the blast from his home nearby, and rushed to the scene to find his father dead in the road.
It is believed that Jackson was murdered by the Silver Dollar Group, a particularly violent sect of Klansmen who dealt in explosives in the Natchez, MS-Ferriday, LA corridor. No one has been convicted for this crime, but the FBI is currently investigating what they refer to as WHARBOMB and community and family members erected a historical marker in 2011.
