Editing Jackson Parish, Louisiana (section)

==History==
Jackson Parish was founded in 1845 after [[Indian Removal]] and named for President [[Andrew Jackson]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Jackson Parish|url=http://ccet.louisiana.edu/tourism/parishes/North_Louisiana/jackson.html|publisher=Center for Cultural and Eco-Tourism|access-date=September 4, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n166 167]}}</ref>

===Civil War===
During the [[American Civil War]] [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] General [[Richard Taylor (Confederate general)|Richard Taylor]] sent five companies into Jackson and [[Winn Parish, Louisiana|Winn]] parishes to arrest [[conscript]]s who failed to report for duty, and to halt [[jayhawker]] groups in the area.<ref>[[John D. Winters]], ''The Civil War in Louisiana'', [[Baton Rouge]]: [[Louisiana State University Press]], 1963, {{ISBN|0-8071-0834-0}}, p. 306</ref>

===20th century to present===
Jonesboro became an industrial mill town in the 20th century, producing lumber and turpentine products from the pine forests. Industrialization stimulated its growth. By the 1950s and 1960s, numerous African Americans had become industrial workers. Many were veterans of World War II and the Korean War, and they began to press to gain civil rights in the segregated state and region. [[Ku Klux Klan]] chapters were active here, and they intimidated and attacked civil rights activists.

In November 1964 Rev. [[Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick]], ordained that year as a minister of the [[Church of God in Christ]], and Earnest "Chilly Willy" Thomas founded the [[Deacons for Defense and Justice]], an organized African-American, armed self-defense group to protect activists and their families.

In February 1965, these two men and other [[Congress of Racial Equality|CORE]] workers traveled 300 miles to [[Bogalusa, Louisiana]], another small mill town, where they founded another chapter of the Deacons. They advised local activists on strategies of self-defense. They helped found chapters of the Deacons in other cities of Louisiana, as well as in Mississippi and Alabama in these years.