The Colfax massacre, sometimes referred to as the Colfax riot, occurred on Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873, in Colfax, Louisiana, the parish seat of Grant...

population of Colfax counted 1,558 at the 2010 census. Colfax is most known for a Reconstruction Era massacre known as the Colfax massacre which took place...

up of many of the Confederate veterans who had participated in the Colfax massacre in April 1873. Chapters were soon founded in New Orleans and other...

John Wilkes Booth successfully assassinated Lincoln. The Colfax Massacre occurred in Colfax, Louisiana on Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873. Republicans had...

1873, Nash led a company of white militiamen in the Colfax Massacre to take the courthouse in Colfax, from armed African-Americans. Three white men were...

2004. Wild West, History Net Lane, Charles, The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction, Henry Holt...

veterans from Rapides and Grant parishes against Republican blacks in the Colfax massacre in neighboring Grant Parish. They attacked freedmen defending the parish...

ISBN 978-1-59416-273-2. Keith, LeeAnna (2007). "Chapter 7: Battle of the Colfax Courthouse". The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, & The Death...

brutalized bodies are why contemporary historians call it the Colfax Massacre rather than the Colfax Riot, as it was known locally. This marked the beginning...

Republican Party Reviewed... National Democratic committee. p. 1. Colfax massacre. Chester, Edward W A guide to political platforms (1977) online Porter...