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54-year-old arrest record triggers civil rights memories

September 12, 2024September 19, 2024 Free PressBreaking News, Police Arrests

Last week, a single arrest record from 1970 resurfaced, to shed light on a largely forgotten chapter of Monroe’s civil rights history. The revelation came two weeks ago when Roosevelt Wright Jr., publisher of the Free Press, and former Civil…

Civil Rights, Roosevelt Wright Jr.

Monroe Blacks turned King around when he came to Monroe

April 5, 2018 Free PressBreaking News, Events

Martin Luther King was scheduled to speak to a NAACP rally about voting rights in Monroe, but a group of Black leaders in Monroe turned him around in 1965.      In March of 1965 Martin Luther King, Jr. was…

Civil Rights

Funeral services set for Larry Neal

June 18, 2017June 19, 2017 Free PressDeaths

Funeral services for Larry “Snuff” Neal will be held Tuesday, June 20th at the New Tabernacle Baptist Church. Neal died Thursday after a brief illness. The memorial service will be held at 6 p.m. at Tabernacle with Robert Allen Tanzy,…

Black Youth Council, Civil Rights, Deaths, Larry Neal

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Reflections on 2016 Flooding in Monroe

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