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Rep. Tony Bacala, R-Prarieville, speaks to Sen. Cleo Fields, D-Baton Rouge, during a committee hearing Thursday.
A Louisiana House of Representatives committee on Thursday agreed to create a task force that would review the training, tactics and selection of law enforcement officers.
When Prohibition became the law of the land, it was not very popular in south Louisiana.
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Henry Austan, left, and Milton Johnson are shown being arrested by Louisiana State Police in Bogalusa following the shooting of Alton Crowe, a white man, on July 8, 1965, during a civil rights march.
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Alton Crowe is shown on his arrival at the Charity Hospital in New Orleans on July 8, 1965.
Editor's Note: This story is the second in a series about the civil rights-era Deacons for Defense and Justice.
BATON ROUGE--A House committee rejected a bill Wednesday that would have prohibited police officers from receiving immunity in civil cases involving abuse allegations.
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Deacons Olen Satcher, and F.D. Kirkpatrick, middle, stand with associate Willie Stringer. Kirkpatrick and Satcher were coaches at Jackson High School in Jonesboro.
On a July night in Jonesboro in 1964, the rumble of engines encroached on a quiet, black neighborhood then known as “The Quarters.” As residents stepped out onto their porches, they observed a line
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