Murder of Louis Allen
Louis Allen (April 25, 1919 – January 31, 1964) was an African-American resident and married businessman with a family in Liberty, Mississippi; he was shot and killed on his land during the civil rights era after trying to register to vote and being suspected of talking to federal officials about the 1961 murder of Henry Lee by a white state legislator. Since the late 20th century, the case has been investigated by a history professor at Tulane University, by the FBI beginning in 2007 as part of its review of civil rights-era cold cases, and in 2011 by CBS 60 Minutes; all point to Allen's having been killed by Daniel Jones, then the county sheriff. No one has been prosecuted for the murder. Allen was among a dozen witnesses of the murder of Herbert Lee by E.H. Hurst, a white state legislator, in September 1961. Civil rights activists had come to Liberty that summer to organize for voter registration; essentially no black had been allowed to vote since 1890, when the state disfranchising constitution was passed.
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