Though 57 years have passed, Leland Boyd still can’t forget the smell of burnt human flesh.
In December 1964, Leland, then 12, stood in the doorway of a hospital room, where Frank Morris, a 51-year-old Black man from Ferriday, lay in critical condition after two men had torched his shoe shop.
Morris was a friend of the Boyd family. Leland and his father, Earcel Boyd Sr., had spent many…