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Louis Allen (April 25, 1919 – January 31, 1964) was an African-American logger in Liberty, Mississippi, who was shot and killed on his land during the civil rights era.
Apr 15, 2011 · It was in Liberty that Moses met Louis Allen, a rough-hewn World War II veteran who walked proud and was not afraid to stand up for himself. He ran a small...
Aug 2, 2024 · Louis Allen, an American farmer and logger, was murdered on January 31, 1964, because of his efforts to vote in Amite County, Mississippi. Allen was born on April 25, 1919, to unnamed parents in Amite County, Mississippi. He served in the United States Army during World War II.
On January 31, 1964, the night before he was set to move to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Louis Allen was ambushed outside his property in Liberty, Mississippi, and shot twice in the face with a shotgun. He died almost instantly.
Jun 29, 2023 · Louis Allen (right photo). The murder of Mississippi voting rights activist Herbert Lee (Sept. 25, 1961), and subsequent murder of witness Louis Allen (Jan. 31, 1964), were key events in the history of the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Aug 29, 2019 · On January 31, 1964, Louis Allen (Allen), an African-American male born April 25, 1919, was murdered in his driveway as he was opening the gate to his home in Amite County, near Liberty, Mississippi. Allen suffered extensive trauma from three shotgun blasts to the head.
Jun 21, 2020 · On September 25, 1961, Louis Allen witnessed a powerful state legislator shoot and kill a black man. After Allen decided to tell the truth about what he saw, he was killed. Allen’s...
WWII veteran Louis Allen was murdered on January 31, 1964. Allen had witnessed the murder of NAACP chapter charter member and SNCC supporter Herbert Lee by state legislator E. H. Hurst on September 25, 1961.
Allen had witnessed the murder of Herbert Lee, a Black voting-rights activist, by Eugene Hunter Hurst Jr., a white state representative in Mississippi. At both the coroner’s inquest and the ...
Apr 17, 2011 · But for nearly half a century, Louis Allen's murder case, and others like it, have become dormant and cold. On this week's Overtime segment, we give you a look at how, over the course of 18...
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