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"On January 31, 1964, the night before his planned departure, Allen’s teenage son found his father’s dead body lying in the driveway. The entire left side of his face had been blown off."

Source
https://snccdigital.org/events/louis-allen-murdered/

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Louis Allen was the victim of racial violence in a system where he was offered no protection by the FBI or the local police.

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1. Killed by 2 shotgun blasts to the head.
2. He had been shot before when he tried to register to vote.
3. Bob Moses, a member of SNCC, reported there was a "plot by the sheriff and several other men" against Allen.
4. Daniel Jones arrested him/harassed him on multiple occasions.
5. FBI documentation from the 1960s shows that Jones was a KKK member.

Source
https://snccdigital.org/events/louis-allen-murdered/

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"In July 1962, Deputy Jones and Marshall Laten Bates arrested Lewis Allen. As they arrested him they hit him with a flash light and broke his jaw"

Source
(Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 4, Segment 94)

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-Sheriff Jones was also suspected to be a member of the KKK.
- “if Louis had just shut his mouth, he wouldn’t be layin’ there on the ground.”
-Mr. Allen was targeted for harassment and violence: local white residents cut off business to his logging company; he was jailed on false charges; and on one occasion, local sheriff Daniel Jones broke Louis Allen’s jaw with a flashlight.
Source
https://clarksdalenews.com/2-day-in-civil-rights-the-murder-of-louis-allen-in-1964/

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"One week later a white man came to Allens house and said he was going to kill him. His daughter ran to the woods where he was working and told him that a man had come to kill him"

Source
(Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 4, Segment 94)