Washington Parish is a parish located in the interior southeast corner of the U.S. state of Louisiana,one of the Florida Parishes. As of the 2020 census,the population was 45,463. Its parish seat is Franklinton. Its largest city is Bogalusa. The parish was founded in 1819.
Bogalusa is a city in Washington Parish,Louisiana,United States. The population was 12,232 at the 2010 census. In the 2020 census the city reported a population of 10,659. It is the principal city of the Bogalusa Micropolitan Statistical Area,which includes all of Washington Parish and is also part of the larger New Orleans–Metairie–Hammond combined statistical area.
The Deacons for Defense and Justice was an armed African-American self-defense group founded in November 1964,during the civil rights era in the United States,in the mill town of Jonesboro,Louisiana. On February 21,1965—the day of Malcolm X's assassination—the first affiliated chapter was founded in Bogalusa,Louisiana,followed by a total of 20 other chapters in this state,Mississippi,Arkansas,and Alabama. It was intended to protect civil rights activists and their families,threatened both by white vigilantes and discriminatory treatment by police under Jim Crow laws. The Bogalusa chapter gained national attention during the summer of 1965 in its violent struggles with the Ku Klux Klan.
The Pearl River is a river in the U.S. states of Mississippi and Louisiana. It forms in Neshoba County,Mississippi from the confluence of Nanih Waiya and Tallahaga creeks,and has a meander length of 444 miles (715 km). The lower part of the river forms part of the boundary between Mississippi and Louisiana.
Marc Haydel Morial is an American political and civic leader and the current president of the National Urban League. Morial served as Mayor of New Orleans from 1994 to 2002 as the city's youngest Mayor,President of the United States Conference of Mayors in 2001,and as a Louisiana State Senator from 1992 to 1994.
Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn is a Vietnamese chess player. He is the youngest Vietnamese ever to become a Grandmaster,and one of the youngest grandmasters in the history of the game,having qualified for the title at the age of fourteen.
Louisiana's 5th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The 5th district encompasses rural northeastern Louisiana and much of central Louisiana,as well as the northern part of Louisiana's Florida parishes in southeastern Louisiana,taking in Monroe,Alexandria,Amite and Bogalusa.
Bogalusa High School (BHS) is the high school of the Bogalusa City Schools district. It is located in Bogalusa,Louisiana,United States.
Franklinton is a town in,and the parish seat of Washington Parish,Louisiana,United States. The population was 3,857 at the 2010 census. The elevation is an average of 155 feet (47 m) above sea level. Franklinton is located 61 miles (98 km) north of New Orleans.
The Great Southern Lumber Company was chartered in 1902 to harvest and market the virgin longleaf pine forests in southeastern Louisiana and southwestern Mississippi. Bogalusa,Louisiana was developed from the ground up as a company town and was the location for Great Southern Lumber Company's sawmill,which began operation in 1908. Other company interests included a railroad and paper mill. The company ceased operation in 1938,when the supply of virgin pines was depleted. Bogalusa became the site of a paper mill and chemical operations,followed by other industry.
Bogalusa School Board is a school district headquartered in Bogalusa,Louisiana,United States. Byron Hurst has been the superintendent since 2023.
Skip Manning is a former NASCAR driver from Bogalusa,Louisiana. He competed in seventy-nine Winston Cup events in his career,spanning from 1975 to 1979. Manning won the rookie-of-the-year award in 1976. He had sixteen top-ten finishes during his career,with his best finish a 3rd at the Talladega Superspeedway in 1977.
Charles Waterhouse Goodyear was an American lawyer,businessman,lumberman,and member of the prominent Goodyear family of New York. Based in Buffalo,New York,along with his brother,Frank,Charles was the founder and president of several companies,including the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad,Great Southern Lumber Company,Goodyear Lumber Company,Buffalo &Susquehanna Coal &Coke Company,and the New Orleans Great Northern Railroad Company.
Malinda Grace Brumfield White is an American businesswoman and a former Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. She formerly ran as an independent and as a Democrat.
The Robert Hicks House,in Bogalusa,Louisiana,was the home from 1965 to 1969 of civil rights leader Bob Hicks (1929–2010) and the site of civil rights meetings in the city. The house,built in the early 1950s,is a one-story 1,590 sq ft (148 m2) building with similarities to 1950s ranch houses and 1930s bungalows. It has weatherboard siding and is built on concrete piers.
The Sullivan House,at 223 S. Border Drive in Bogalusa in Washington Parish,Louisiana was built in c.1907. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Robert Hicks was a prominent leader in Bogalusa,Louisiana during the Civil Rights Movement,whose activism helped put an end to segregation and discriminatory practices in education,housing,employment,public accommodations and healthcare. Best known for his leading role in founding the Bogalusa chapter of The Deacons for Defense and Justice,an armed African-American self-defense group,Hicks led daily protests on the streets of Jim Crow-era Bogalusa. He served as president and later Vice President of the Bogalusa Civic and Voters League,and the plaintiff in a series of civil rights lawsuits which achieved groundbreaking legal victories nationwide.
Clarence Triggs was a married African-American bricklayer and veteran,who was murdered on July 30,1966,in Bogalusa,Louisiana,about a month after participating in a civil rights march for voting. Two white men were arrested and indicted in the case. One was acquitted and the other never tried. Although the cold case was reopened by the FBI in the early 21st century,Triggs' murder has never been solved.
WBOX is a radio station broadcasting on 920 AM in Bogalusa,Louisiana. The station is owned by Best Country Broadcasting,LLC,and carries a country format.
John Julian McKeithen was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th governor of Louisiana from 1964 to 1972.
