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 …
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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. …
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 …
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
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, …
https://www.mississippicir.org/news/thanks-to-students-more-fbi-files-on-klan-violence-could-be-released
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/
https://www.mississippicir.org/news/jo-ed-edwards-disappeared-in-a-klan-suspected-abduction-his-bodys-never-been-found
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 …
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 …
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
https://www.hannapub.com/concordiasentinel/the-deacons-for-defense-and-justice-in-louisiana/article_4d3e2fd4-1eb0-11e6-a176-77dbdfb14daf.html
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
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
https://www.wafb.com/story/20630777/ernest-parker/
https://www.wafb.com/story/20630263/closed-cases/
https://www.wafb.com/story/20630371/fbi/
https://www.wafb.com/story/20630772/wharlest-jackson-murder-bombing-sidebar/
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
https://www.wafb.com/story/18686545/kenneth-head/
https://www.wafb.com/story/18684330/della-smith/
https://www.wafb.com/story/17078589/jack-seale/
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