Thanks for the info, Maestro, never heard of this story coming from Bogalusa, LA. Btw, "Bouchillon" sounds very much like a French name. Yup, two White Americans, one of French origins and the other Irish, died for saving the live of a negro unionist. Strange, there are many other countries out there where Black ppl were slaves, but they NEVER had a John Brown, or Bouchillon or Gorton, or Jonathan Daniels, or Father James Groppi, or Anne McCarty Braden, or Christopher Chandler, or our dear Bernie Sanders etc etc etc to mention a few, all were White folks, all dead except Bernie.
AND ON TOP OF THAT THE ONLY COUNTRY OUT OF ALL THE COUNTRIES WHERE BLACKS WERE ENSLAVED THE U.S WILL PROBABLY BE THE FIRST TO PAY SOME SORT OF REPARATIONS TO BLACK FOLKS, AND PROBABLY FOLLOWED BY WESTERN EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA LATER IN THE PROCESS. NOW, Back to the oppressed MF, how about Saudi-Arabia(its a rich country right?), How about Brazil? How about India? How about Colombia? How about Mexico? How about Iraq? LOL, reparations is not even in their discussion or in their pysche, although these oppressed countries have enslaved Blacks long before North America was colonized. 
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Today, 1919, the Bogalusa, Louisiana Massacre occurred. It is considered the most dramatic display of interracial labor solidarity in the Deep South during the first half of the twentieth century.
Two white union carpenters, JP Bouchillon and Stanley O'Rourke, armed with shotguns, accompanied Sol Dacus to the local Central Trades and Labor Hall where they sought refuge for him. Dacus was the head of the newly-formed black section of the International Union of Timber Workers in Bogalusa, Louisiana. Several attempts had been made on his life, including his home being riddled with bullets while his wife and children were present.
The courts issued a "disturbing the peace" arrest warrant for all three men and a posse of armed company men from the Great Southern Lumber Company assembled to confront them leading to a gunfight. Both Bouchillon and O'Rourke lost their lives and provided Sol Dacus the opportunity to escape.
https://www.internationalist.org/bloodybogalusa19191202.html
Below, image of three union thugs of the Great Southern Lumber Company:
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