Articles Written About the LSU Cold Case Project Cases by LSU Manship Students
Student journalists at LSU have pored over more than 175,000 pages of FBI files obtained under the Freedom of Information Act since 2009. They have interviewed witnesses and family members of African Americans killed by the Ku Klux Klan from the 1950s through the early 1970s and performed investigative research, even meeting with FBI officials in Washington to find and present facts about the cases and help provide closure for the families.
A half-century ago in Louisiana, armed black men fought back
First in a four-part series JONESBORO, La. — On a July night in Jonesboro in…
The new fight: Securing civil rights fighters ‘Deacons’ in history
Barbara Hicks-Collins stands in front of her father’s historic house, which she would like to…
First black student in Ferriday meets with klansman’s daughter 50 years after firebombing
FERRIDAY — On the night of Jan. 30, 1966, in the racially divided city of Ferriday,…
Washington Parish civil-rights era homicide investigation could continue with extension of federal law
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_f6ef83d3-ef0d-5805-8450-e61fa04c41d5.html
Louisiana Ku Klux Klan member’s daughter recalls her father’s reigns of terror
https://www.theadvocate.com/nation_world/article_f920d25f-be90-52ff-9fa5-bdf65a878555.html
The Deacons for Defense and Justice in Louisiana
https://www.hannapub.com/concordiasentinel/the-deacons-for-defense-and-justice-in-louisiana/article_4d3e2fd4-1eb0-11e6-a176-77dbdfb14daf.html
FBI: Former Gov. John McKeithen arranged payments to Ku Klux Klan to quell violence in 1960s
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_0cd51a58-e446-5be3-a566-128597814118.html
Civil rights era group helped protect black community
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_44f0e6af-5c19-5b9c-ab73-4bbfc475c823.html
FBI closing the books on reopened civil rights era murders
WASHINGTON – The FBI is winding down its fresh examination of civil rights-era murders in the South,…
