Colfax, Grant Parish’s government seat, was the site of either a Reconstruction era “riot” or a “massacre” on and around Easter Sunday, 1873. The distinction makes a world of difference. Those who ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A dark day in Louisiana history had lasting effects on the nation’s delicate attempt to integrate newly freed enslaved Blacks into the fabric of the red, white, and blue.

The Colfax Massacre was the deadliest atrocity of the Reconstruction Era in the South. A new monument erected in a rural Louisiana town honors the Black residents killed in the 1873 Colfax Massacre, ...

WASHINGTON — The memorial dedicated by the white townspeople of Colfax, La., in 1921 was, at least, direct. Many Southern monuments to Confederate heroes erected in this era are made up only of an ...

The ancestors of the Rev. Avery Hamilton and Dean Woods were on opposite sides of the Colfax Massacre that occurred on April 13, 1873, during the Reconstruction Period after the Civil War. Hamilton, ...

COLFAX, La. — Exactly 150 years after a rampaging White mob slaughtered dozens of Black men in this tiny Grant Parish town, in the bloodiest single-day racial massacre in the Reconstruction-era South, ...

COLFAX – The shiny new black marble monument dedicated to the victims of the Colfax Massacre sits next to the railroad tracks on Eighth Street, not far from where the atrocity took place on April 13, ...

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A new monument erected in a rural Louisiana town honors the Black residents killed in the 1873 Colfax Massacre, nola.com reports. The marker installed last week in Colfax arrived in time for the 150th ...