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https://www.lsu.edu/manship/news/2023/april/lsu-southern-students-win-investigative-reporting-award.php
African-American businessman William “Will” Haney made Ferriday, LA, a destination for Black music lovers across the South from the 1940s through the mid-1960s as his […]
BATON ROUGE — The LSU Cold Case Project, LSU Storytellers Lab, and Manship School of Mass Communication will host a listening event for a new
Bitter Jaguar Listening Event Read More
Part 2 of 2 BATON ROUGE — Beverly Shabazz did not have a job and was seven months pregnant with her second child when her
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.
The fatal shooting of Milton X Scott Read More
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
https://www.lsu.edu/manship/news/2023/april/lsu-southern-students-win-investigative-reporting-award.php
BATON ROUGE — Gov. John Bel Edwards apologized Wednesday (Nov. 16) on behalf of the state to former Southern University protest leaders and the families
Last in a four-part series Shunda Wallace was 3 months old when her father, Leonard Brown, and another student, Denver Smith, were shot dead by
Pain, lessons remain decades after Southern shooting Read More
Third in a four-part series At 12:35 p.m. on Nov. 17, 1972, the phone rang in the office of acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray
Without an eyewitness, the FBI turned to polygraphs, angle of shot diagrams Read More
Second in a four-part series The knock on the door came at 4 a.m. Rickey Hill and Herget Harris, two protest leaders at Southern University,
As gas clouds cleared, two lay dead. A sister wondered, ‘Why? Why?’ Read More
First in a four-part series Josephine and Denver Smith took different approaches to protests at Southern University in the fall of 1972. Josephine skipped class
Half century later, question remains: What deputy killed two students? Read More
Not a day has passed during the past 62 years that Willie Gibson hasn’t thought of Louisiana and the horrific shootings in Monroe that left
A man the FBI thought was dead recalls details of 1960 murders Read More
https://www.mississippicir.org/news/sins-of-their-fathers-haunt-these-children-of-klansmen
Sins of their fathers haunt these children of Klansmen Read More
Third in a three-part series Leland and Sonny Boyd say some relatives and old friends wonder why they are speaking publicly about their father’s involvement
Second in a three-part series When Leland Boyd woke up in the middle of the night as a child, he’d sometimes find his father Earcel
Our Dad Was in the Klan: Drawn in, disillusioned, disgusted Read More
First in a three-part series Though 57 years have passed, Leland Boyd still can’t forget the smell of burnt human flesh. In December 1964, Leland,
Our Dad Was in the Klan: He ‘had a rage in him’ Read More
https://www.mississippicir.org/news/thanks-to-students-more-fbi-files-on-klan-violence-could-be-released
Thanks to students, more FBI files on Klan violence could be released Read More
The U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday approved four nominees to serve on a national board tasked with reviewing and eventually releasing to the
Board that will review FBI files from civil rights era taking shape Read More
https://www.brproud.com/news/trust-your-dog-louisiana-search-and-rescue-dog-team-used-in-cold-cases/
“TRUST YOUR DOG,” Louisiana Search and Rescue Dog team used in cold cases Read More
https://www.mississippicir.org/news/jo-ed-edwards-disappeared-in-a-klan-suspected-abduction-his-bodys-never-been-found
Jo-Ed Edwards disappeared in a Klan-suspected abduction. His body’s never been found. Read More
Fourth in a four-part series A retired FBI agent was at a Christian retreat in the late 1990s when a churchgoer confided he had witnessed
Did the FBI fail in trying to resolve Civil Rights cold cases? Read More
Third in a four-part series More than six decades ago a grand jury assembled to hear a grisly case. Four Black men had been shot
A case that ‘flips justice on its head’: Victim, not shooter, convicted in 1960 bloodbath Read More
Second in a four-part series MONROE, La. — In the rural neighborhood around Ticheli Road, the sound of multiple gunshots erupted in the early morning
‘Mr. Fuller has shot his men’ Read More
First in a four-part series During the 1950s in northeast Louisiana, future Klansman Robert Fuller was a familiar face to law enforcement. He lived on
‘You don’t go in Mr. Fuller’s yard’ Read More
Last in a four-part series Ferriday, La.—David Whatley, the first black student to integrate Ferriday High in 1966, returned from tortuous days at school only
Deacons group protected ‘outlaw town’ Ferriday’s black community from Klansmen in 1960s Read More
Third in a four-part series A dozen times over three decades, Claiborne Parish resident Frederick Douglass Lewis had tried to register to vote in Louisiana,
Deacons for Defense and Justice defied segregation Read More
This is the second in a four-part series. BOGALUSA, La. — Fiery red dust filled the air as Henry Austan, a 21-year-old insurance bill collector
In Bogalusa, the Deacons fought violence with violence Read More
First in a four-part series JONESBORO, La. — On a July night in Jonesboro in 1964, the rumble of engines encroached on a quiet, black
A half-century ago in Louisiana, armed black men fought back Read More
BOGULASA, LA (LSU Manship School News Sevice) – “That’s my daddy,” Barbara Hicks-Collins, now 72, said as her hand gingerly swept across the image on
The new fight: Securing civil rights fighters ‘Deacons’ in history Read More
FERRIDAY — On the night of Jan. 30, 1966, in the racially divided city of Ferriday, David Whatley, the first black student to attend the town’s
First black student in Ferriday meets with klansman’s daughter 50 years after firebombing Read More
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_f6ef83d3-ef0d-5805-8450-e61fa04c41d5.html
https://www.theadvocate.com/nation_world/article_f920d25f-be90-52ff-9fa5-bdf65a878555.html
Louisiana Ku Klux Klan member’s daughter recalls her father’s reigns of terror Read More
https://www.hannapub.com/concordiasentinel/the-deacons-for-defense-and-justice-in-louisiana/article_4d3e2fd4-1eb0-11e6-a176-77dbdfb14daf.html
The Deacons for Defense and Justice in Louisiana Read More
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_0cd51a58-e446-5be3-a566-128597814118.html
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_44f0e6af-5c19-5b9c-ab73-4bbfc475c823.html
Civil rights era group helped protect black community Read More
WASHINGTON – The FBI is winding down its fresh examination of civil rights-era murders in the South, closing almost all of the cases with just two prosecutions
FBI closing the books on reopened civil rights era murders Read More
Kenny “Zulu” Whitmore — sentenced to life in prison 38 years ago in the murder of former Zachary Mayor Marshall Bond — is asking for
Kenny “Zulu” Whitmore says 1977 trial for killing of ex-Zachary mayor was unfair Read More
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_ee33a1a8-917b-5c3b-b9e3-ccd6162f710b.html
Bogalusa civil rights leader, Deacon for Defense Bob Hicks, honored Read More
https://www.wafb.com/story/20630772/wharlest-jackson-murder-bombing-sidebar/
Wharlest Jackson Murder (Bombing Sidebar) Read More
https://www.hannapub.com/concordiasentinel/frank_morris_murder/cold-case-details-on-glover-sdg-killings-found-in-fbi-jackson-docs/article_849c624e-4725-11e3-8915-0019bb30f31a.html
Cold Case: Details on Glover, SDG, killings found in FBI Jackson docs Read More
FERRIDAY— In December 1964, two white men poured gasoline over the inside of Frank Morris’ shoe repair shop and set it on fire while a
Small-town paper calls attention to unsolved civil-rights killings Read More
