Our dad was in the Klan: ‘If you don’t learn your history, then you’re doomed to relive it’

Leland and Sonny Boyd say some relatives and old friends wonder why they are speaking publicly about their father’s involvement in the Ku Klux Klan in 1960s Louisiana.

Our Dad Was in the Klan: Drawn in, disillusioned, disgusted

When Leland Boyd woke up in the middle of the night as a child, he’d sometimes find his father Earcel in the bathroom, scrubbing his hands over and over.

Our Dad Was in the Klan: He ‘had a rage in him’

Though 57 years have passed, Leland Boyd still can’t forget the smell of burnt human flesh.

In December 1964, Leland, then 12, stood in the doorway of a hospital room, where Frank Morris, a 51-year-old Black man from Ferriday, Louisiana, lay in critical condition after two men had torched his shoe shop.

Jo-Ed Edwards disappeared in a Klan-suspected abduction. His body’s never been found.

Six decades after a Louisiana man’s disappearance and presumed slaying, his family is still looking for answers and a body to bury.

Did the FBI fail in trying to resolve Civil Rights cold cases?

A retired FBI agent was at a Christian retreat in the late 1990s when a churchgoer confided he had witnessed a shooting of five Black men in 1960 that he believed had been racially motivated.