Lake Providence travel guide

The town of Lake Providence is the parish seat of East Carroll Parish, in the US state of Louisiana. The population was 5,104 at the 2000 census.
The town is nearly 80 percent African American and heavily Democratic and liberal in political orientation.
Until 1962, no African Americans had been allowed to register to vote in Lake Providence. Then U.S. District Judge Edwin Ford Hunter, Jr., based in Lake Charles, the seat of Calcasieu Parish, personally registered some two dozen African American citizens under a provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1960. (...) more....

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