Title: Crossing Border Street : a civil rights memoir /
Authors: Honigsberg, Peter Jan.
Publisher: University of California Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Honigsberg, Peter Jan.; African Americans Civil rights Louisiana History; African Americans Legal status, laws, etc. Louisiana History; African American civil rights workers Louisiana History; Civil rights workers Louisiana Biography.; Law students Louisiana Biography.; Louisiana Race relations.
Abstract: "Honigsberg's narrative conveys the emotions and personal dangers activists faced and examines the work of three charismatic black leaders: A.Z. Young, Robert Hicks, and Gayle Jenkins. He describes how the Deacons worked with the Bogalusa Voters League to boycott the white owned businesses in the downtown area and to integrate the local schools, restaurants, parks, and paper mill. He also relates the story of Gary Duncan, a black man charged with battery for touching a white boy in Plaquemines Parish, the fiefdom of arch-segregationist Leander Perez. Honigsberg was part of the team that took the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and eventually established the constitutional right to a jury trial."