For All Those Men: When the Kkk Threatened to Take Control of Louisiana

by John Warner Smith

In the summer of 1922, two tragic events occurred in Louisiana, one in the north, the other in the south. Together, the events dramatically changed the state’s racial and political climate. In the south, twenty-six-year-old Emile Hebert, an African American farmer, was indicted for murder and assault, in¬cluding the injury of Lafayette Parish Sheriff Felix Latiolais. Two months later in the north, two white men, F.W. Daniel, age thirty-five, and Thomas Richards, age thirty-one, mysteriously disappeared in the plantation village of Mer Rouge. The Ku Klux Klan stood at the center of both events, as did Louisiana Governor John M. Parker. History takes no note of Hebert’s ordeal. Here, the Hebert trial takes center stage.

102 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2022