Moore stated that after the Civil War, some of the saddest cases in the homeless community in Louisiana were that of “the old freed women women out with years of slavery.” Joanna wrote that ...

A Shreveport museum is honoring the history of the city’s first bank for freedmen by displaying a special exhibit during ...

Apr. 24, 1962 was meant to strike fear in the hearts of those working for equality in Northwest Louisiana. A lakehouse owned by Shreveport dentist and civil rights activist Dr. Cuthbert Ormond (C ...

By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four ...

Louisiana, and Fredericksburg, Virginia. There was scarcely a family in the South that did not lose a son or brother or father. As with any civil strife, the war was marked by excruciating ironies.

The Louisiana State Police for years have used ... report released Thursday by the U.S. Justice Department. A broad civil rights inquiry, announced in 2022 following an Associated Press ...