American Civil War · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Colfax massacre (1873)
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13 Apr 1873 — A white paramilitary force murders between 60 and 150 Black men defending the Grant Parish courthouse. The Supreme Court lets the killers go. Colfax shows how violence destroyed Reconstruction; remember it when reading Chapter 12.
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- The American Civil War, 1840–1877
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