Loading Events

« All Events

  • This event has passed.

Speaker’s Bureau: “Murder on Pretty Creek: New Revelations on an Old Case”

September 26, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Free

The killing of Ben Chester White, one of the brutal murders that occurred in Natchez during the civil rights movement in the 1960s, will be discussed by Stanley Nelson at the Tuesday, Sept. 26, meeting of the Natchez Historical Society. The meeting begins with a social at 5:30 p.m. and Nelson’s presentation at 6 p.m., at the Historic Natchez Foundation at 108 S. Commerce St. The event is free to the public.

Nelson’s presentation is titled, “Murder on Pretty Creek: New Revelations on an Old Case.” It will focus on White, the 67-year-old Black man who was murdered in 1966 by the Ku Klux Klan. Nelson will talk about his alleged killers, two of whom, Ernest Avants and James Lloyd Jones, were charged but not convicted in 1967; and a third one, Claude Fuller, who was never brought to trial.

Details

Date:
September 26, 2023
Time:
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Cost:
Free

Venue

Historic Natchez Foundation
108 S. Commerce St.
Natchez, MS United States
+ Google Map
Phone
601-492-3000