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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 11.
This is one scene of Chapter 11 — Reconstruction — The Unfinished Revolution in The American Civil War, 1861–1865.
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