American Civil War · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Colfax massacre (1873)
On the American Civil War map as “Colfax”
13 Apr 1873 — A white paramilitary force murders between 60 and 150 Black men defending the Grant Parish courthouse — and the Supreme Court lets the killers go. Reconstruction was not lost; it was killed. Remember Colfax when you read Chapter 12.
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- Reconstruction era (chapter 12 of American Civil War)
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- The American Civil War, 1840–1877
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