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  • Chapter 9 - 1930: The State of Louisiana v. Huddie Ledbetter

  • Sheila Curran Bernard, University at Albany, State University of New York
  • Book:
    Bring Judgment Day
    Published online:
    21 June 2024
    Print publication:
    11 July 2024, pp 141-152

  • Summary

    Despite the publicity, reporters do not investigate the arrest, just five years earlier, that landed Ledbetter in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. This chapter does so, looking at his arrest in Mooringsport on January 15, 1930 and at the protracted, but ultimately unsuccessful, legal battle waged on Ledbetter’s behalf by a white law firm. On the basis of the evidence, and unpublished drafts of the Lomaxes’ book, it seems that the Lomaxes, too, had reason to doubt the story as edited for their book.