| Notes |
Ray Dreher Sr. and his brother Murphy Dreher, Jr., were close to local Congressman and noted Klansman John Rarick; all three men belonged to the same Masonic lodge and Murphy served as Rarick's campaign manager. According to the FBI, Rarick worked with the Silver Dollar Group, a Klan splinter organization responsible for the deaths of at least eight black people along the Louisiana-Mississippi border between 1964 and 1967. Rod Dreher has also acknowledged that his relatives "participated in an extrajudicial lynching of a black man who, it came out later, had been falsely accused of a crime. |