The Black Hood of the Ku Klux KlanAustin & Winfield, 1998 - 577 pages In the summer of 1922, northeast Louisiana was not unlike any other rural agricultural area in the South. However, on August 24, events were to occur which would send a shock wave through the entire United States and rivet the attention of the nation on Morehouse Parish. On that day, two white men, Watt Daniel and Thomas Richards were kidnapped by the Ku Klux Klan. Their bodies were crushed by some unknown torture device before being bound in wire, attached to iron wheels and cast into a nearby lake. |
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