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Murder of Louis Allen
Louis Allen (April 25, 1919 – January 31, 1964) was an African-American citizen and married businessman with a family in Liberty, Mississippi; he was shot and killed on his land during the civil rights era after trying to register to vote and being suspected of talking to federal officials about the 1961 murder of Henry Lee by a white state legislator.
Since the late 20th century, the case has been investigated by a history professor at Tulane University, by the FBI beginning in 2007 as part of its review of civil rights-era cold cases, and in 2011 by CBS ''60 Minutes''; all point to Allen's having been killed by Daniel Jones, then the county sheriff. No one has been prosecuted for the murder.〔 Allen was among a dozen witnesses of the murder of Herbert Lee by E.H. Hurst, a white state legislator, in September 1961. Civil rights activists had come to Liberty that summer to organize for voter registration; essentially no black had been allowed to vote since 1890, when the state disfranchising constitution was passed.
==Early life==
Louis Allen was a native of Amite County, Mississippi, where he was born in 1919. The population was majority black, with an economy based on agriculture: cotton, dairy farming and logging. Many blacks left before World War II because of the poor economic opportunities and social oppression under Jim Crow. Population declined by 29% from 1940 to 1960, following earlier declines. In the first half of the 20th century, more than six million blacks left the South in the Great Migration to the North, Midwest, and, beginning in the 1940s, West Coast in search of jobs and better living conditions.
Allen served in the United States Army during World War II; he enlisted at age 23 in the service at Camp Shelby, Mississippi on January 12, 1943.〔"Louis Allen", ''U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946'' (on-line ), National Archives and Records Administration, hosted at Ancestry.com, 2005. Original data: Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, 1938-1946 (Database ); ARC: 1263923. World War II Army Enlistment Records; Records of the National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 64; National Archives at College Park. College Park, Maryland, U.S.A.〕 After his return, Allen worked as a logger and farm laborer. Allen and his wife Elizabeth had four children together, including a daughter and a son Henry (called Hank). He built up his own logging business, doing well enough also to buy his own land, where he and his family raised some produce and dairy cows.
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