In depth interviews with the Hicks family and other Bogalusa civil rights leaders who risked their lives to fight for change.

Transcripts and audio recordings of interviews with civil rights workers, CORE meetings and Bogalusa Voters League meetings , recorded in Bogalusa by Stanford students for KZSU Project South during the summer of 1965.

CORE and Bogalusa Civic and Voters’ League, July 7, 1965, 0104-0103. 0104-0103

CORE Bogalusa meeting, July 8, 1965, 0103 (side 2), 0108 (side 1). 0103, 0108

CORE meeting, Bogalusa, July 9, 1965, 0108 (side 2). 0108

CORE Mass Meeting, Bogalusa, Louisiana, July 10, 1965, Ebeneezer Baptist Church, 0047 (sides 1 and 2), Charles Sims – Head of Deacons, James Farmer, ex. Director, CORE. 0047

Oral history interview with anonymous, white, male, CORE volunteer, 0028, Bogalusa, Louisiana. 0028

Oral history interview with anonymous, African-American, local person in Bogalusa, Louisiana, 0048. 0048

Oral history interview with anonymous, white, female, CORE volunteer, 0044 (side 1), Bogalusa, Louisiana. 0044

Oral history interview with anonymous, African-American, male, CORE volunteer in Bogalusa, Louisiana, 0028. 0028

Oral history interview with Charles [UNK], white, male, CORE student volunteer, 0044 – 1 (side 2), Bogalusa, Louisiana. 0044

Oral history interview with Joan Grieco, white, female, CORE summer volunteer, 0045-1 (side 1), Bogalusa, Louisiana. 0045-1

Oral history interview with Ernestina Vanderpool, African-American, female, CORE student volunteer, 0045-1 (side 2), Bogalusa, Louisiana. 0045-1

Oral history interview with Welms, African-American, male, CORE staff, 0125 (side 2). 0125

Oral history interview with David Dennis, African-American, male, Director of Southern Regional CORE, 0442-1 (cont’d on 0443, all sides New Orleans, Louisiana. 0442-1

Into the Fire
Short documentary about Bogalusa Civil Rights Movement, produced by Louisiana Secretary of State, Archives Division. Executive Producers: Bob Courtney & Sailor Jackson, Jr.

A.Z. Young Oral History, 10/15/1992

Interview with Robert Hicks in Cassidy Park: Part 1

Interview with Robert Hicks in Cassidy Park: Part 2

AZ Young announces march from Bogalusa to Baton Rouge, 7/28/67

A.Z. Young discusses Vietnam & the Bogalusa Civil Rights March, 8/15/67

State Capitol Rally following Bogalusa March with speeches by Pearl George, A.Z. Young, Robert Hicks & R.T. Young. KKK Rally Follows

Bogalusa Civil Rights March approaches Baton Rouge parish line

General Wise on sending troops to Bogalusa for the Bogalusa Civil Rights March

Governor McKeithen on making arrests during the Bogalusa to Baton Rouge March

Major Tom Bradley of the Louisiana State Police speaks about the Bogalusa to Baton Rouge March

Baton Rouge Mayor Woody Dumas on the Bogalusa to Baton Rouge March

Ron Hunter reports on the Bogalusa to Baton Rouge March & interview with A.Z. Young on Governor McKeithen’s remarks

Thomas Burbank on recommending National Guard assistance during the Bogalusa to Baton Rouge March (WWL-TV, New Orleans)

Louisiana: a History: Bogalusa to Baton Rouge March. Interviews with Gayle Jenkins, Creed Rogers, Guy Coates & Bob Courtney. Louisiana Public Broadcasting, 2003.

Governor John McKeithen on refusing to meet with Robert Hicks & A.Z. Young

Hubert Humphrey speaks about Bogalusa Civil Rights Movement at LSU news conference, circa 1965

Ron Hunter reports on night march from Bogalusa to Franklinton, 07/23/67 (WWL-TV, New Orleans)

Camille Gravel Oral History, 12/10/1992

Dave Dennis Oral History, part 1, 10/30/2009

Dave Dennis Oral History, part 2, 10/30/2009

Robert Hicks interviewed by Miriam Feingold, Summer 1966 (audio & transcript)

Gayle Jenkins interviewed by Miriam Feingold, Summer 1966 (audio & transcript)

Hattie Mae Hill interviewed by Miriam Feingold, Summer 1966 (audio & transcript)

Royan Burris interviewed by Miriam Feingold, Summer 1966 (audio & transcript)

SEDFRE (Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality) Press Releases 1963-1966 

• Contains 12/15/65 CORE press release demanding the federal government cut housing funds to Bogalusa after a Klansman was appointed to the Bogalusa Housing Authority

Freedom Information Service – WATS reports, April 1965-August 1965

• Contains organizing appeal for July 8, 1965 march in Bogalusa

MFDP (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party) –  General papers, 1963-1965, part 2

• Contains 10/20/1965 WATS Report from CORE worker Anita Levine about integration of Washington Parish Free Fair, student boycott and arrests

MFDP (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party) Lauderdale County – WATS (Telephone) Reports – August 1965

• Contains 8/1/1965 report on contempt citation against Bogalusa City Police for failing to protect demonstrators

MFDP – General papers, 1965-1971, part 1

• Contains transcript of speech by Rev. Edwin King referencing the Deacons for Defense and Bogalusa

CORE Southern Regional Office – Staff training, 1964, February – 1965, August

• Contains Ronnie’s Moore’s 9/4/1964 proposal for “Future CORE program in Louisiana”

Bogalusa to Baton Rouge, KPFA radio show, 1967. A.Z. Young, the president of Bogalusa Voters League talks to Elsa Knight Thompson for KPFA

Robert Hicks speaks about his civil rights work at 1980 Amistad Forum from the Voices of the New Orleans Movement Committee:

The Campus CORE-lator, Vol. I, no. 3, Spring 1965, published by Berkeley Campus CORE. Contains two articles about Bogalusa: “Bogalusa: Negro Community vs. Crown Colony” by Carl Hufbauer and “The Problem in Focus” by Anita Levine and Becky Withe.