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Liz Ryan

@LizRyanColdCase

Civil Rights era #ColdCase student investigative reporter @ManshipXGR @UA_jcm

Joined September 2021
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The FBI thought he was dead. Now he's the last living witness of what led to the killings of four Black men by a man who would become a KKK leader in LA. Fascinating story by @LizRyanColdCase of the @LSU @ManshipSchool. theadvertiser.com/story/news… #lalege #lagov

The FBI thought he was dead. Now he's the last living witness to a brutal Louisiana murder

Not a day has passed during the past 62 years that Willie Gibson hasn’t thought of Louisiana and the horrific shootings in Monroe.

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A man the FBI thought was dead recalls details of 1960 Louisiana murders. @LizRyanColdCase interviews a new witness in the killings of four Black men by a future Ku Klux Klan leader. lailluminator.com/2022/05/10… via @IlluminatorLA
A man the FBI thought was dead recalls details of 1960 Louisiana murders • Louisiana Illuminator

A man the FBI thought was dead recalls details of 1960 Louisiana murders • Louisiana Illuminator

A man who would become a Ku Klux Klan leader was suspected of fatally shooting four men in 1960. The FBI thought the sole witness was dead.

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Congratulations @remroc15 on this wonderful recognition for your great work!!!!!
LSU Manship School of Mass Communication (@ManshipSchool) profile pictureLSU Manship School of Mass Communication@ManshipSchool30 Mar 2022
Congrats to @LSU alumna and former @lsureveille Opinion Editor Rachel Mipro who earned third place in the Explanatory Reporting Competition of the 2021-2022 Hearst Journalism Awards Program for her LSU Cold Case Project story! Read more: manshipschool.wordpress.com/… #GeauxManship
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Ultimately, his killers were never convicted of his murder, but Wille Edwards Jr.’s memory lives on. buff.ly/3uEMar1
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Part 3 of our series on growing up in a Klan family: ‘If you don’t learn your history, then you’re doomed to relive it.’ By @jarchote of the @ManshipSchool. mississippicir.org/news/our-… #lalege #lagov
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Explosive anger: How bombmaking, WWII trauma may have influenced Louisiana Klansman. Part 2 of a series by @JArchote of the @ManshipSchool. shreveporttimes.com/story/ne… via @shreveporttimes #lalege #lagov
Explosive anger: How WWII trauma may have influenced Louisiana Klansman

Explosive anger: How WWII trauma may have influenced Louisiana Klansman

The Boyd brothers were struck by how many Klansmen were World War II veterans, like their father, who bore the trauma of his service for years.

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Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia was the architect of the "Southern Manifesto" to resist the Brown vs. Board of Education. Route 7 from Berryville to Leesburg, VA is named the "Harry Byrd Highway."
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#OnThisDay 1956, 19 senators & 77 congressmen signed Southern Manifesto, denouncing Brown v. Board decision as “abuse of judicial power” & called for resistance to integration. #SaturdayThoughts facebook.com/jerry.mitchell.…
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#OnThisDay in 1965, a white mob murdered the Rev. James Reeb (@UUSC) during the Selma march. All-white jury acquitted his killers. Among the 40 martyrs listed on @splcenter #CivilRights Memorial. #Courage #FridayMorning #FlashbackFriday facebook.com/jerry.mitchell.…
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Sons of KKK preacher reflect on violent past, by @Jarchote of the @ManshipSchool. hammondstar.com/news/sons-of… via @hammondlastar
Sons of KKK preacher reflect on violent past

Sons of KKK preacher reflect on violent past

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

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Congratulations Rachel @remroc15 for this national honor for your work on this #CivilRightsColdCase story!!! So happy that you are being recognized for your hard work and dedication!
LSU Manship School Statehouse Bureau (@ManshipXGR) profile pictureLSU Manship School Statehouse Bureau@ManshipXGR16 Feb 2022
Huge congratulations to Rachel Mipro, who just captured 3rd place for explanatory reporting in the national Hearst Awards, the most prestigious contest for student journalists! @remroc15 was honored for this @LSU @ManshipSchool Cold Case Project story. bit.ly/3sJpYv7
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How Rarely Seen Archival Footage Brought a Civil-Rights-Era Story to Life pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/artic… via @frontlinepbs
Tonight at 9 on @frontlinepbs, Stanley Nelson, an adjunct prof the @ManshipSchool who helps run the @LSU Cold Case Project, will talk about the Ku Klux Klan murder of Wharlest Jackson in 1967. Watch it on your local @lpborg station. lailluminator.com/2022/02/14… #lalege #lagov
'Frontline' revisits Louisiana editor's work on Ku Klux Klan murder case • Louisiana Illuminator

'Frontline' revisits Louisiana editor's work on Ku Klux Klan murder case • Louisiana Illuminator

The work of a Louisiana newspaper editor will be included in a PBS "Frontline" documentary on the 1967 Ku Klux Klan murder of a Black man in Natchez, Mississippi.

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Students hit a roadblock studying Klan violence. They drafted a law to release more @FBI files about cases in LA & other Southern states. By @LizRyanColdCase, @Laranicholson_ & @remroc15 of the @LSU @ManshipSchool Cold Case Project. theadvertiser.com/story/news… #lalege #lagov
Students hit a roadblock studying Klan violence. They drafted a law to release more FBI files

Students hit a roadblock studying Klan violence. They drafted a law to release more FBI files

In Louisiana alone, 15 victims from the civil rights era have been included among cases that the FBI has reviewed

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Thanks to the work of high school students, more FBI files on KKK violence in LA & other Southern states could be released, by @LizRyanColdCase, @Laranicholson_ & @remroc15 of the @LSU @Cold Case Project. Nice to see their story on A1 in Lafayette. theadvertiser.com/story/news…
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Action in Congress might lead to FBI release of thousands of files on Louisiana KKK, civil rights-era murders, by @LizRyanColdCase. Also watch the great video by former @ManshipSchool students @carolinefenton1 & Payton Ibos. theadvertiser.com/story/news…
Cold case: FBI might release thousands of files on Louisiana KKK, civil rights-era murders

Cold case: FBI might release thousands of files on Louisiana KKK, civil rights-era murders

A national board tasked with reviewing and eventually releasing FBI documents on murder cases from the civil rights-era in Louisiana is being formed.

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@ManshipSchool Statehouse reporter Piper Hutchinson is tracking the start of the special #LaLege session on redistricting today. You can follow her tweets at @PiperHutchBR & read her stories here, at manshipxgr.org & in newspapers & on websites around the state. #lagov
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#OnThisDay in 1957, truck driver Willie Edwards Jr., 24, was on his way to work in Montgomery AL when 4 Klansmen forced him to jump off a bridge into the Alabama River, killing him. #OTD #BlackHistory #SundayMorning facebook.com/jerry.mitchell.…
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"Column: Here’s what happens next for unsolved ‘cold case’ killings from the civil rights era" column by @nick_goldberg latimes.com/opinion/story/20…

Nicholas Goldberg: Here’s what happens next for unsolved 'cold case' killings from the civil rights...

Prosecutions are becoming more difficult in these decades-old murders. But history hasn’t finished with them. Now journalists, scholars and the public need to see the files.

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Thank you @ALReporter for running this story about the Scottsboro Boys and the work of Alabamans to preserve their important legacy!
Alabama Political Reporter (@ALReporter) profile pictureAlabama Political Reporter@ALReporter3 Jan 2022
Their legacy endures in several U.S. Supreme Court decisions recognizing Americans have the right to receive effective legal counsel. buff.ly/3HjVK7x
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Their legacy endures in several U.S. Supreme Court decisions such as the Powell v. Alabama ruling that all Americans have the right to receive effective legal counsel. buff.ly/3HjVK7x
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