The FBI thought he was dead. Now he's the last living witness of what led to the killings of four Black men by a man who would become a KKK leader in LA. Fascinating story by @LizRyanColdCase of the @LSU@ManshipSchool. https://t.co/KhnqBNvOtW #lalege#lagov
A man the FBI thought was dead recalls details of 1960 Louisiana murders. @LizRyanColdCase interviews a new witness in the killings of four Black men by a future Ku Klux Klan leader. https://t.co/nx793s5Stn via @IlluminatorLA
Congrats to @LSU alumna and former @lsureveille Opinion Editor Rachel Mipro who earned third place in the Explanatory Reporting Competition of the 2021-2022 Hearst Journalism Awards Program for her LSU Cold Case Project story!
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Part 3 of our series on growing up in a Klan family: ‘If you don’t learn your history, then you’re doomed to relive it.’ By @jarchote of the @ManshipSchool. https://t.co/d0MIw7FiAc #lalege#lagov
Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia was the architect of the "Southern Manifesto" to resist the Brown vs. Board of Education. Route 7 from Berryville to Leesburg, VA is named the "Harry Byrd Highway."
#OnThisDay 1956, 19 senators & 77 congressmen signed Southern Manifesto, denouncing Brown v. Board decision as “abuse of judicial power” & called for resistance to integration. #SaturdayThoughts https://t.co/MeWqDOisH3
Congratulations Rachel @remroc15 for this national honor for your work on this #CivilRightsColdCase story!!! So happy that you are being recognized for your hard work and dedication!
Huge congratulations to Rachel Mipro, who just captured 3rd place for explanatory reporting in the national Hearst Awards, the most prestigious contest for student journalists! @remroc15 was honored for this @LSU@ManshipSchool Cold Case Project story. https://t.co/F0E42UV4Gs
Tonight at 9 on @frontlinepbs, Stanley Nelson, an adjunct prof the @ManshipSchool who helps run the @LSU Cold Case Project, will talk about the Ku Klux Klan murder of Wharlest Jackson in 1967. Watch it on your local @lpborg station. https://t.co/7WodoBmNE5 #lalege#lagov
Students hit a roadblock studying Klan violence. They drafted a law to release more @FBI files about cases in LA & other Southern states. By @LizRyanColdCase, @Laranicholson_ & @remroc15 of the @LSU@ManshipSchool Cold Case Project. https://t.co/5Z7jmpnVnN #lalege#lagov
Thanks to the work of high school students, more FBI files on KKK violence in LA & other Southern states could be released, by @LizRyanColdCase, @Laranicholson_ & @remroc15 of the @LSU@Cold Case Project. Nice to see their story on A1 in Lafayette.
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Action in Congress might lead to FBI release of thousands of files on Louisiana KKK, civil rights-era murders, by @LizRyanColdCase. Also watch the great video by former @ManshipSchool students @carolinefenton1 & Payton Ibos. https://t.co/nJb5riRFHN
@ManshipSchool Statehouse reporter Piper Hutchinson is tracking the start of the special #LaLege session on redistricting today. You can follow her tweets at @PiperHutchBR & read her stories here, at https://t.co/vYWQWNjULJ & in newspapers & on websites around the state. #lagov
#OnThisDay in 1957, truck driver Willie Edwards Jr., 24, was on his way to work in Montgomery AL when 4 Klansmen forced him to jump off a bridge into the Alabama River, killing him. #OTD#BlackHistory#SundayMorning https://t.co/MeWqDOisH3
Their legacy endures in several U.S. Supreme Court decisions recognizing Americans have the right to receive effective legal counsel.
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