Louis Allen

CTL-E-6063 · Person · other · 1919–1964

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Combined Graph record U-07286 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6063.

Louis Allen, born 25 April 1919 in Amite County, Mississippi, was an African American logger and businessman in Liberty, Mississippi, and a World War II veteran. In September 1961 he witnessed the murder of his friend Herbert Lee, a farmer active with the NAACP and SNCC voter-registration work, who was shot at a Liberty cotton gin by Mississippi state representative E. H. Hurst. Pressured by local authorities, Allen gave testimony supporting Hurst's self-defense claim, and a coroner's jury cleared Hurst. Allen later told federal investigators and civil rights workers the truth and said he would testify if the government protected him; the Justice Department declined. Word of his cooperation spread, his logging business was boycotted, he received death threats, and Amite County Sheriff Daniel Jones harassed and jailed him repeatedly, once breaking his jaw. Allen stayed to care for his elderly mother, then planned to move to Milwaukee. On 31 January 1964, the night before he was to leave, he was shot and killed at the gate of his home. No one was ever prosecuted for his murder.

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 5 — 747 Program, Wave 11; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Louis Allen entity in the live graph at 3,763 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); the sole containment hit, Lou Rawls (CTL-E-5615, born Louis Allen Rawls), is a different person — false positive; ID CTL-E-6063 assigned at assembly. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1447 (Civil Rights Leaders list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — African American Mississippi logger and civil-rights-era witness whose murder followed his attempt to tell federal investigators the truth about the Herbert Lee killing. Vital status: DECEASED — murdered 31 January 1964, Amite County, Mississippi (U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Notice to Close File). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Born 25 April 1919; died aged 44; no one has ever been prosecuted for the murder; the FBI reopened the case in 2007 as part of its civil-rights-era cold-case review and it was closed again without prosecution (DOJ; Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16). MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons photograph of Louis Allen; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-temp-1447-louis-allen.svg); video HELD (Shorts Link Map checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short); audio HELD (no rights basis). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging.)

Sources

• U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, 'Louis Allen (Deceased) — Notice to Close File' — Allen, an African-American male born 25 April 1919, was murdered on 31 January 1964 in his driveway in Amite County near Liberty, Mississippi; the coroner's jury found homicide and no local case file was ever located — https://www.justice.gov/crt/case/louis-allen (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, 'Louis Allen' — born 25 April 1919, Amite County; died 31 January 1964, aged 44; African-American logger who witnessed the 1961 murder of Herbert Lee by state legislator E. H. Hurst, was harassed and jailed by Sheriff Daniel Jones, and was killed the day before a planned move out of state; case reopened by the FBI from 2007 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Allen (build store)
• Zinn Education Project, 'Jan. 31, 1964: WWII Veteran Louis Allen Murdered' — Allen secretly told Justice Department officials he would testify against Hurst if protected; protection was refused, his business was boycotted and he received death threats; he was killed on 31 January 1964 and no one was ever arrested — https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/wwii-veteran-louis-allen-murdered/ (build store)

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