[2] He had taken part in some marches organized by the Congress on Racial Equality and the Bogalusa Voters League to push for blacks to be allowed to register freely to vote in elections, after decades of being disenfranchised.
"[4] But Royan Burris, president of the local chapter of the Deacons for Defense, said he had gone to the murder scene at 3 a.m. to tell police about witnesses having seen two white men in a car following Triggs.
[2] Homer R. "Kingfish" Seale and John W. Copling, Jr., both 36, were arrested August 1 on the charge of murdering Triggs;[4] they were freed on bail.
He also represented Ernest Ray McElveen, charged with the murder of Oneal Moore in June 1965 near Bogalusa.
His case was reopened by the FBI under the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, but has since been closed without resolution.