Morris, a black man who owned a successful shoe repair shop in Ferriday, La., was wounded and later died after his store was set afire in the middle of the night. According to FBI documents, Morris was targeted by the Ku Klux Klan.
Now, decades later, a break in his case has attracted the attention of law enforcement officials and a dogged newspaper editor.
Since 2007, when Morris's name was placed on an FBI list of civil rights-era cold cases, Stanley Nelson, the editor of a weekly newspaper in Ferriday, has been searching for the answer to one question: Who killed Frank Morris?
