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Devils WalkingStanley Nelson

Devils Walking

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"After midnight on December 10, 1964, in Ferriday, Louisiana, African American Frank Morris awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Outside his home and shoe shop, standing behind the shattered window, Klansmen tossed a lit match inside the store, now doused in gasoline, and instantly set the building ablaze. A shotgun pointed to Morris's head blocked his escape from the flames. Four days later Morris died, though he managed in his last hours to describe his attackers to the FBI. Frank Morris's death was one of several Klan murders that terrorized residents of northeast Louisiana and…

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  • Other · English · 2016
    Louisiana State University Press · 280 pages · 9780807164075
Violence againstMurderKu Klux Klan (1915- )InterviewsRacismWitnessesInvestigationRace relations