Stanley Nelson_ Editor Who Probed Cold Cases of Jim Crow Era_ Dies at 69

Nelson remembered as honorable, respected journalist

Stanley Nelson, Concordia Sentinel’s longtime editor, The Franklin Sun contributor, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author was laid to rest at Beauregard Cemetery in DeRidder. He was 69.

Stanley Nelson, editor who probed cold cases of Jim Crow era, dies at 69

The sound of breaking glass awoke Frank Morris in the early hours of Dec. 10, 1964, at his shoe repair shop - one of the few thriving Black-owned businesses in the eastern Louisiana town of Ferriday, near the Mississippi River.

Stanley Nelson_ editor who probed cold cases of Jim Crow era_ dies at 69

The sound of breaking glass awoke Frank Morris in the early hours of Dec. 10, 1964, at his shoe repair shop - one of the few thriving Black-owned businesses in the eastern Louisiana town of Ferriday, near the Mississippi River. A gang of suspected Ku Klux Klan members stormed the one-story building and splashed gasoline over the workbenches and on Morris. A match was lit. The 51-year-old Morris ran out the back door of Frank’s Shoe Service, wher…

Civil rights investigative journalist Stanley Nelson, ‘the best of us,’ died last week

America lost a gentle giant in journalism when Stanley Nelson, who investigated some of the nation’s most notorious racially motivated slayings in Mississippi and Louisiana, died unexpectedly last week. He was 69.