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Bogalusa Daily News
Local newspaper in Bogalusa, Nevada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Bogalusa Daily Times, or simply The Daily News, is an American newspaper based in Bogalusa, Louisiana covering all of Washington Parish and northern St. Tammany Parish. Despite their name, it is now a weekly newspaper.[3] During the Civil rights movement, the publication faced repeated acts of intimidation from the Ku Klux Klan.[4]
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The paper started in 1927[1] and, in the 1940s, Wick Communications purchased the publication.[5] In 2013, Wick began closing their Louisiana newspapers.[6] The next year, Wick sold both the Daily News and the LaPlace L'Observateur to the Carpenter Media Group, a division of Boone Newspapers[5][7] In 2023, the paper switched to a weekly format to reduce costs and focus on their website, but did not change their name.[3]
Civil Rights era
In the 1960s, both the nonviolent Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the armed Deacons for Defense and Justice began pushing to end racial segregation in Bogalusa. The local Ku Klux Klan strongly opposed these efforts.[8] That struggle turned violent leading to the killings of two African Americans, Oneal Moore[9] and Clarence Triggs.[10]
Under the leadership of editor Lou Major, the Daily News ran editorials against the secrecy of the Klan in 1964. The paper also stopped publishing their African-American edition and began providing the same version of their publication to all subscribers.[11]
In response, the KKK began anonymously distributing the Midnight Mail, a racist newsletter, to compete with their coverage. The group then burned a cross at the downtown newspaper offices. On four occasions, the KKK also burned crosses at the home of editor who used one of them to roast marshmallows.[11] In 2021, Major published an autobiography of his experiences running the paper despite the Klan.[12]
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