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Students from LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication and the Southern University Law Center won a national investigative reporting prize

April 10, 2023

https://bossierpress.com/students-from-lsus-manship-school-of-mass-communication-and-the-southern-university-law-center-won-a-national-investigative-reporting-prize/

Sins of their fathers haunt these children of Klansmen

By LSU Cold Case Project / April 28, 2022 / Klansmen

https://www.mississippicir.org/news/sins-of-their-fathers-haunt-these-children-of-klansmen

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First black student in Ferriday meets with klansman’s daughter 50 years after firebombing

By LSU Cold Case Project / April 15, 2017 / Klansmen

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

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Louisiana Ku Klux Klan member’s daughter recalls her father’s reigns of terror

By LSU Cold Case Project / May 29, 2016 / Klansmen

https://www.theadvocate.com/nation_world/article_f920d25f-be90-52ff-9fa5-bdf65a878555.html

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FBI: Former Gov. John McKeithen arranged payments to Ku Klux Klan to quell violence in 1960s

By LSU Cold Case Project / April 27, 2016 / FBI Involvement, Klansmen

https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_0cd51a58-e446-5be3-a566-128597814118.html

FBI: Former Gov. John McKeithen arranged payments to Ku Klux Klan to quell violence in 1960s Read More

Ernest Parker

By LSU Cold Case Project / January 19, 2013 / Klansmen

https://www.wafb.com/story/20630777/ernest-parker/

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Kenneth Head

By LSU Cold Case Project / June 3, 2012 / Klansmen

https://www.wafb.com/story/18686545/kenneth-head/

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Jack Seale

By LSU Cold Case Project / March 5, 2012 / Klansmen

https://www.wafb.com/story/17078589/jack-seale/

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Small-town paper calls attention to unsolved civil-rights killings

By LSU Cold Case Project / December 25, 2009 / About the Project, Community Impact, Klansmen

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

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