For All Those Men: When the KKK Threatened to Take Control of Louisiana Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville © 2021 University of Louisiana

© 2021 University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press

Win or lose

If Flannery O’Connor had been a bad boy living in the French Quarter

"It is always good for us

—James F

For All Those Men: When the KKK Threatened to Take Control of Louisiana Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville © 2021 University of LouisianaFor All Those Men: When the KKK Threatened to Take Control of Louisiana by John Warner Smith About the Book In the summer of 1922, two tragic events occurred in Louisiana, one in the north, the other in the south. Together, the events dramatically changed the states racial and political climate. In the south, twenty six year old Emile Hebert, an African American farmer, was indicted for murder and assault, including the injury of Lafayette Parish