Deacons For Defense
Deacons for Defense & Justice The Deacons for Defense & Justice was an organization of Black men formed in Louisiana during the Civil Rights-era to …
Cases
Deacons for Defense & Justice The Deacons for Defense & Justice was an organization of Black men formed in Louisiana during the Civil Rights-era to …
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
Earcel Boyd was a member of the Silver Dollar Group and a statewide officer in the Louisiana Realm of the United Klans of America. Two …
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