Search the LSU Cold Case Project Database for Civil Rights Cases from the 1950s Through the 1970s
The Civil Rights Cases have been obtained under the Freedom of Information Act from the FBI. Search through the 175,000+ pages to discover facts, interviews, and more.
Raymond “Scotty” Wright
Raymond “Scotty” Wright was a Klansman from Clayton, LA, who in 1965 was elected Exalted Cyclops of the Clayton klavern of the Ferriday-Clayton unit of […]
Robert Fuller
Robert ‘Shotgun’ Fuller: The 1960 Murder of Albert Pitts Jr., David Lee Pitts, Earnest McFarland and Alfred ‘Monk’ Marshall and Wounding of Charlie Willis In […]
Sheriff Noah Cross & The Morville Lounge
The Morville Lounge, a brothel and illegal gambling operation in Concordia Parish during the 1960s, was the eventual downfall of Sheriff Noah Cross. The lounge […]
Shooting at Southern University
Victims: Denver Smith and Leonard “Douglas” Brown Background In the fall of 1972 at Southern University in Baton Rouge, students began protesting for better school […]
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 […]
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 […]
