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...Deacons. He may not have exaggerated. For six months, Bogalusa has been the scene of a civil rights drive by the Congress of Racial Equality and its local affiliate, the Bogalusa Civic and Voters League. They have won a few concessions, such as street lights for the town's Negro neighborhoods. They have also won a few promises, including a pledge to take on two Negro policemen -if they can pass an examination. But for the most part, the demands of civil rights advocates have been thwarted by the Ku Klux Klan. Although Klan rolls are secret...
Against the Klan, some Negroes have formed the "Deacons for Defense and Justice"; its members, many of them troublemakers long before Bogalusa's civil rights crisis occurred, openly sport pistols and rifles. For months, Deacons have exchanged shots and punches with white roughnecks. In June night riders murdered one Negro deputy sheriff and seriously wounded another. Two weeks ago, a Deacon shot and critically wounded a white heckler during a civil rights demonstration...
...Gonna Move In." Limited disarmament was only a stopgap. McKeithen wanted civil rights demonstrations-which had been specifically sanctioned by federal court order-ended for 30 days so that a durable settlement could be sought. From the state capital at Baton Rouge, he sent his personal plane to Bogalusa to fetch A. Z. Young and Robert Hicks, Voters League president and vice president. "If we don't find the answers in 30 days, you can start demonstrating again," McKeithen told them. He vowed to rid Bogalusa of two of the noisiest white agitators: "I'll have them...
Young and Hicks agreed, pending approval by their followers. When they returned to Bogalusa, however, they found Negro Author Louis Lomax, who had arrived from Los Angeles with what he called "15,000 of the biggest dollars you've ever seen." When Young and Hicks reported the Governor's request, Lomax made a fiery speech against it. Young and Hicks telephoned McKeithen, getting him out of bed, and told him the deal was off. McKeithen then asked for-and got-an invitation to come to Bogalusa for more talk...
...said that CORE would bring in "some of the biggest religious names in the world, the same people who went to Selma." He added: "Let them knock some priests and nuns down for a change, let them shoot up on some Jewish rabbis. We're gonna walk through Bogalusa like John walked through Jerusalem...