The Colfax massacre : the untold story of Black power, White terror, and the death of Reconstruction / LeeAnna Keith.

The Colfax massacre : the untold story of Black power, White terror, and the death of Reconstruction /

On Easter Sunday, 1873, in the tiny hamlet of Colfax, Louisiana, more than 150 members of an all-black Republican militia were slain by rampaging white supremacists. The deadliest incident of racial violence of the Reconstruction era, the Colfax Massacre unleashed a reign of terror that all but exti...

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Main Author: Keith, LeeAnna
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Louisiana > Colfax.
Massacres > Louisiana > Colfax > History > 19th century.
Violence > Louisiana > Colfax > History > 19th century.
Racism > Louisiana > Colfax > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Crimes against > Louisiana > Colfax > History > 19th century.
Contested elections > Louisiana > Grant Parish > History > 19th century.
Colfax (La.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Grant Parish (La.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Grant Parish (La.) > Politics and government > 19th century.
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