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The Bogalusa saw mill killings were a series of racially motivated attacks that occurred on November 22, 1919, resulting in the deaths of four labor organizers. These attacks took place in Bogalusa, Louisiana , United States, and were orchestrated by the white paramilitary group known as the Self-Preservation and Loyalty League (SPLL).
Bogalusa 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 of the larger New Orleans–Metairie–Hammond combined statistical ar
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 ...
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 ...
14001174 [1] Added to NRHP. January 20, 2015. The Robert Hicks House, in Bogalusa, Louisiana, was the home from 1965 to 1969 of civil rights leader Bob Hicks (1929–2010) and the site of civil rights meetings in the city. [2] The house, built in the early 1950s, is a one-story 1,590 sq ft (148 m 2) building with similarities to 1950s ranch ...
WBOX is a radio station broadcasting on 920 AM in Bogalusa, Louisiana.The station is owned by Best Country Broadcasting, LLC, and carries a country format. In 1965, the station was boycotted by the Ku Klux Klan during a turbulent civil rights struggle in Bogalusa, earning the station and its manager national attention but driving its ownership out of town.
The Great Southern Lumber Company was chartered in 1902 to harvest and market the virgin longleaf pine ( Pinus palustris L.) forests in southeastern Louisiana and southwestern Mississippi. Bogalusa, Louisiana was developed from the ground up as a company town and was the location for Great Southern Lumber Company's sawmill, which began ...