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The Deacons for Defense and Justice was an armed African-American self-defense group founded in November 1964, during the civil rights era in the United States, in the mill town of Jonesboro, Louisiana. On February 21, 1965—the day of Malcolm X 's assassination —the first affiliated chapter was founded in Bogalusa, Louisiana, followed by a ...
7. Robert Hicks (February 20, 1929 – April 13, 2010) was a prominent leader in Bogalusa, Louisiana during the Civil Rights Movement, whose activism helped put an end to segregation and discriminatory practices in education, housing, employment, public accommodations and healthcare. [1] Best known for his leading role in founding the Bogalusa ...
Clarence Triggs (1942 – July 30, 1966) was a married African-American bricklayer and veteran, who was murdered on July 30, 1966, in Bogalusa, Louisiana, about a month after participating in a civil rights march for voting. [1] Two white men were arrested and indicted in the case. One was acquitted and the other never tried.
Tyrin Truong, (born June 10, 1999), in Mandeville, Louisiana, is the current and youngest Mayor of Bogalusa, Louisiana. [1][2] He is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis. [3] He is the grandson of a Vietnamese immigrant who fought in the Vietnam War and his mother is a U.S. Army veteran. He also has a young son and is planning on ...
The Bloody Bogalusa Massacre occurred on November 22, 1919, following years of labor struggles in the timber industry. The Bogalusa sawmill was the world's largest, and labor demands for better wages were met with arrests of Black men for minor offenses, forcing them into forced labor at the mill.
Bogalusa (/ ˌboʊɡəˈluːsə / BOH-gə-LOO-sə) is a city in Washington Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 12,232 at the 2010 census. In the 2020 census the city reported a population of 10,659. It is the principal city of the Bogalusa Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Washington Parish and is also part ...