Echo, LA

Echo is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. The 2020 census counted 352 residents. In 1907 a mob lynched Henry Johnson, a middle-aged Black man was taken from jail by a mob of 150 white men, who shot him around 50 times. A newcomer can read Echo through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Echo comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines.