While community leaders like Gayle Jenkins held grassroots meetings at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Bogalusa, the Robert “Bob” Hicks House was the meeting place for the Bogalusa Deacons for Defense and Justice, the Bogalusa Civic and Voters League and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). In 1965, two police officers informed Bob Hicks that if he didn’t ask the two white CORE activists he was hosting to leave his home, a mob would murder his family and burn down their house. Hicks called upon the Bogalusa Deacons for Defense and Justice for protection, and the violent mob never showed. The home is included on the National Register of Historic Places.
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While community leaders, including Gayle Jenkins, held grassroots meetings at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Bogalusa, the Robert “Bob” Hicks House was the meeting place for the Bogalusa Deacons for Defense and Justice...