Mass Murder at Colfax, The Bloody Death of Reconstruction
Against The Current vol. 144
Caldwell, Robert
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/2612
Date Written: 2010-01-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2010
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13595
On April 13, 1873, white supremacists laid siege to a Black Republican stronghold in rural north Louisiana, brutally slaying freedmen and altering the course of the United States. The Colfax massacre happened at the courthouse of newly created Grant Parish, located in a town named after Vice President Schuyler Colfax. Colfax is situated in cotton country along the Red River.
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