Assassination of F.M.B. "Marsh" Cook
On July 23, 1890, Marsh Cook of Jasper County was gunned down by six men after warning citizens that the 1890 Mississippi Constitutional Convention would likely limit voting rights and disfranchise black voters. Cook was a white Republican candidate for delegate to the Constitutional Convention. He had urged black voters to organize against disfranchisement. No one was ever arrested or tried for his murder.
Marker is at the intersection of State Highway 15 and Commerce Drive, on the right when traveling north on State Highway 15.
Courtesy hmdb.org
