White-hooded Ku Klux Klan members on horseback riding through the streets of Bogalusa, Louisiana.

.
Chicago Tribune

Hate incidents in U.S. surge
Election seen as factor behind revival of Klan
By Howard Witt

November 23, 2008

Some excerpts :

Historians say that the Ku Klux Klan so dominated Bogalusa's commerce, politics and law enforcement in the 1960s that the group once held a public meeting to debate which black church to burn down next.

.........

Several Bogalusa Klan members were long suspected of shooting two black sheriff's deputies in a 1965 ambush, killing one and wounding the other. But no one was ever brought to trial for the crimes.

...........

"To this day, most white people in Bogalusa know who the killers were, and they were never brought to justice," said Lance Hill, a Tulane University law professor and Klan expert.

..........

Now that grim history is lurching back to life.

.............

On Nov. 10, local law-enforcement authorities arrested Raymond Foster, 44, the leader of a Bogalusa Klan chapter called the Sons of Dixie, and seven other Klan members in connection with the shooting death of a Tulsa, Okla., woman who had journeyed to the group's remote campsite in nearby St. Tammany Parish to participate in an initiation ceremony.

.............

In October 2007, residents of one black neighborhood said they witnessed white-hooded Klan members on horseback riding through their streets. And last March, Klan members openly handed out fliers in town advertising the second annual "Sons of Dixie Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Craw Fish Boil" held at the house Foster was renting.

...