BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – For David Whatley, the front porch of his home is now a place of peace.
More than 60 years ago, it was a place of fear.
In 1966, Whatley became the first Black student to attend Ferriday High School in north Louisiana, breaking a racial barrier in his small town during the height of the civil rights movement. The milestone came with violent backlash…