A case that ‘flips justice on its head’

By Rebecca Chaisson on Friday, September 10, 2021
Third in a four-part series
  • Robert Fuller in Klan regalia. (From “Ten Years of Leadership in the Original Ku Klux Klan of America, Inc.,” a book published in 1972 by Robert Fuller and Jack Barnes)
    Robert Fuller in Klan regalia. (From “Ten Years of Leadership in the Original Ku Klux Klan of America, Inc.,” a book published in 1972 by Robert Fuller and Jack Barnes)

    More than six decades ago a grand jury assembled to hear a grisly case. Four Black men had been shot to death and a fifth seriously wounded in a hail of gunfire on Ticheli Road near Monroe, Louisiana. The all-white grand jury would do something in character for the segregated South of the early 1960s, finding that the white shooter had acted in self-defense. Later that day, the panel made another…