Reporter on Quest to Close 1964 Civil Rights Case

Reporter on Quest to Close 1964 Civil Rights Case

Concordia Sentinel

Frank Morris, at center in visor, was killed when his shoe repair shop was set on fire in 1964 in Ferriday, La.

By KIM SEVERSON

Published: January 12, 2011

 

 

ATLANTA — Stanley Nelson writes for a small weekly newspaper in the Louisiana delta. For the past four years, he has been obsessed with one story: who threw gasoline into a rural shoe repair and dry goods shop in 1964 and started a fire that killed Frank Morris?

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Cold Case: Burning the Store

No one disputes that the death of Mr. Morris, a well-liked businessman who served both black and white customers, was connected to the Ku Klux Klan. The case is on a list of unsolved civil rights murders the F.B.I. released in February 2007, the day Mr. Nelson first heard of the story.

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