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

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News, Civil RIghtsKatherine MitchellLSU Manship School News Service, KKK, 1960s, FBI, Louisiana civil rights-era cold cases, Ferriday, Earcel Boyd, Frank Morris, Leland Boyd, murder, killing, Klan violence, domestic abuse, Fenwick, preacher, klansman, father, Sonny boyd, Leland boyd, World War II
Our Dad Was in the Klan: Drawn in, disillusioned, disgusted
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.

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News, Civil RIghtsKatherine MitchellLSU Manship School News Service, KKK, 1960s, FBI, Louisiana civil rights-era cold cases, Ferriday, Earcel Boyd, Frank Morris, Leland Boyd, murder, killing, Klan violence, domestic abuse, Fenwick, preacher, klansman, father, Sonny boyd, Leland boyd, World War II