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John Warner Smith's Murders at Mer Rouge is a gripping dramatization of a tragic murder case in northeast Louisiana during the early 1920s. Smith's narrative captures the horror and the outrage over the Ku Klux Klan's violent rule in Morehouse Parish. His excellent novella brings the various heroic, sympathetic, and detestable characters vividly to life. This is a chilling reminder about the profound moral cost to our society of cowardice in the face of murderous racism.
Robert Mann, Professor Emeritus, Louisiana State University
Murders at Mer Rouge is one hundred-year-old tale of vicious murder with Klansmen in the frame, based on fact, but deftly fictionalized by John Warner Smith to capture the terror not only of north Louisiana’s oppressed Ku Klux Klan victims, but of the state and federal leaders who sought to bring justice to the remote rural community.
JamesEdmunds, Journalist
John Warner Smith's Murders at Mer Rouge is a gripping dramatization of a tragic murder case in northeast Louisiana during the early 1920s. Smith's narrative captures the horror and the outrage over the Ku Klux Klan's violent rule in Morehouse Parish. His excellent novella brings the various heroic, sympathetic, and detestable characters vividly to life. This is a chilling reminder about the profound moral cost to our society of cowardice in the face of murderous racism.
Robert Mann, Professor Emeritus, Louisiana State University
Murders at Mer Rouge is one hundred-year-old tale of vicious murder with Klansmen in the frame, based on fact, but deftly fictionalized by John Warner Smith to capture the terror not only of north Louisiana’s oppressed Ku Klux Klan victims, but of the state and federal leaders who sought to bring justice to the remote rural community.
JamesEdmunds, Journalist