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Will Haney’s legendary nightclub put Black Ferriday, LA, on the map despite Jim Crow
African-American businessman William “Will” Haney made Ferriday, LA, a destination for Black music lovers across the South from the 1940s through the mid-1960 as his popular nightclub — Haney’s Big…
Bitter Jaguar Listening Event
BATON ROUGE — The LSU Cold Case Project, LSU Storytellers Lab, and Manship School of Mass Communication will host a listening event for a new podcast series titled Bitter Jaguar:…
50 years after fatal shooting: Milton Scott’s family, FBI agents talk about the emotional toll
Part 2 of 2 BATON ROUGE — Beverly Shabazz did not have a job and was seven months pregnant with her second child when her husband, Milton X Scott, was…
The fatal shooting of Milton X Scott
Part 1 of 2 BATON ROUGE — On a hot, quiet morning in July 1973, 21-year-old Milton Scott heard a loud knock at his door. Scott was lying in bed…
LSU Cold Case Project student reporter wins first place in feature writing for large universities for story: “A Klansman’s sons seek to understand and redress his wrongs”
Congratulations to LSU Cold Case Project student reporter Josh Archote for winning first place in feature writing for large universities with his story: “A Klansman’s sons seek to understand and…
Students from LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication and the Southern University Law Center won a national investigative reporting prize
https://www.lsu.edu/manship/news/2023/april/lsu-southern-students-win-investigative-reporting-award.php
The fatal shooting of Johnny Queen by Jasper Burchfield in Fayette, Miss. in 1965
By Stanley NelsonConcordia SentinelPublished March 6, 2013 A half-century ago at the ice house on the main street of Fayette, Miss., a white Adams County constable shot and killed a…
Tommie Lee Jones
Tommie Lee Jones (1936-2007) was a Klansman from Natchez, Miss., who became one of the earliest and most violent members of the secret Klan cell known as the Silver Dollar…
Ernest Gilbert – FBI Informant
Ernest Gilbert was a leader in the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan who became a paid FBI informant in 1964. His identity was revealed decades later on ABC’s…
The Disappearance of Joseph Edwards
Joseph Edwards disappeared in Concordia Parish in July 1964. FBI records, a lengthy investigation by the Concordia Sentinel in Ferriday, LA, a book by LSU Cold Case Project associate director…
Murder of Frank Morris
Frank Morris was 51 years old when Klansmen torched his shoe shop in Ferriday, LA, on December 10, 1964. He had been sleeping in a back room when he was…
Ernest Avants
Ernest Avants was a Klansman who was convicted in 2003 for the murder of Ben Chester White, a 67-year-old farmhand in Adams County, Miss., who was slain in 1966. The…
