The Colfax Massacre
The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror and the Death of Reconstruction
Louisiana, history
Contested elections
Massacres
Elections, united states
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Racism
Violence
United states, race relations
Crimes against
Race relations
African Americans
Politics and government
History
On Easter Sunday, 1873, in the tiny hamlet of Colfax, Louisiana, more than 150 members of an all-black Republican militia were slain by rampaging white supremacists. The deadliest incident of racial violence of the Reconstruction era, the Colfax Massacre unleashed a reign of terror that all but exti…
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