Half century later, question remains: What deputy killed two students?
First in a four-part series Josephine and Denver Smith took different approaches to protests at...
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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
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Tommie Lee Jones
Tommie Lee Jones (1936-2007) was a Klansman from Natchez, Miss., who became one of the earliest and most violent members of the secret Klan cell
Ernest Gilbert – FBI Informant
Ernest Gilbert was a leader in the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan who became a paid FBI informant in 1964. His identity was
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Half century later, question remains: What deputy killed two students?
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
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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
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Murder of Frank Morris
Frank Morris was 51 years old when Klansmen torched his shoe shop in Ferriday, LA, on December 10, 1964. He had been sleeping in a
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Ernest Avants
Ernest Avants was a Klansman who was convicted in 2003 for the murder of Ben Chester White, a 67-year-old farmhand in Adams County, Miss., who
Earl Hodges
Earl Hodges was a mechanic in Eddiceton, Miss., killed by Klansmen in 1965 over fear that he was going to tell authorities about wrecking projects
A man the FBI thought was dead recalls details of 1960 murders
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
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