Killing of Roy Cyril Brooks in Louisiana in 1948
Incident
Roy Cyril Brooks (1905-1948), a fertilizer plant worker, was killed by Patrolman Alvin Bladsacker in Gretna, Louisiana. Brooks and a bus driver got into a dispute over a five-cent bus fare. Bladsacker stepped in, beat Brooks, arrested him, and shot him on the street as he walked him toward the jail. An essay on this case, researched and authored by a CRRJ student, is available on request.
Philadelphia 44-30
New Orleans 44-198
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advocacy group resources
- NAACP: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- NAACP: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Correspondence by the NAACP
- NAACP: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Press releases by the NAACP
- Organizational records by the NAACP
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- NAACP: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Press releases by the NAACP
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Correspondence by the NAACP
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Advocacy Group: 2021-02740-MILLER George (1376675101)
- Advocacy Group: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Journalism: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Journalism: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Journalism: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- newspaper article II
- News article from the New Orleans Item regarding the killing of Roy Cyril Brooks : May 22, 1948
- Journalism: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Journalism: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- News article from the LaGrange Daily News about the murder of L.S. Swanson : June 10, 1946
- Journalism: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Journalism: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Journalism: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Journalism: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- newspaper article III
- Journalism: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- News article from an unidentified newspaper regarding the murder of Roy Cyril Brooks
- Journalism: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Royal Brooks
- newspaper article IV
- Journalism: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- News article from the Louisiana Weekly regarding the murder of Roy Cyril Brooks : July 2, 1949
- Journalism: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- newspaper article
- Journalism: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Journalism: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Journalism: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Journalism: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Journalism: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Journalism: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Journalism: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
- Journalism: 2016-00469-BROOKS Roy Cyril (1042390961)
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