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The Colfax, Louisiana massacre...
The Colfax, Louisiana massacre...
Item # 705491
April 15, 1873
NEW YORK HERALD, April 15, 1873
* Colfax massacre of 1873 Louisiana
* Former Confederate soldiers
* African Americans - freedmen
The top of page 7 has one column headings: "The Negro Riot In Louisiana" "Colfax Grant Parish in Possession of the Negroes--A Reign of Terror--The Whites Arming for Resistance".
Sixteen pages, nice condition.
AI notes: The Colfax Massacre of April 13, 1873, in Colfax, Louisiana, was a brutal act of racial and political violence during Reconstruction, stemming from a contested gubernatorial election and local power struggle. White supremacist militias, largely composed of former Confederates, attacked a group of Black freedmen who had fortified the Grant Parish courthouse to defend the Republican-controlled local government. After a standoff, the white attackers overran the courthouse, killing an estimated over 100 Black men, many after they had surrendered, while only a few white men died. The massacre exemplified the extreme lengths white Democrats used to suppress Black political participation in the post–Civil War South. Its aftermath included the landmark Supreme Court case United States v. Cruikshank (1876), which severely restricted federal authority to protect civil rights, signaling the failure of Reconstruction-era protections for African Americans and emboldening violent white resistance across the South.
Category: Post-Civil War
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