"In a bold swap engineered by a Black man and a white man working together, reckoning has come at last to Colfax, Louisiana.

It was 150 years ago in the rural parish seat that scores of Black citizens trying to protect their right to vote were shot, stabbed, brutally beaten and, in at least one case, burned to death by white supremacists in what has become known as the Colfax Massacre."

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https://www.splcenter.org/news/2023/04/28/colfax-louisiana-massacre-memorial

On this day in 1873 the Colfax Massacre occurred. Set against the backdrop of racial tensions following the hotly contested Louisiana governor’s race of 1872.

On 4/13, Easter Sunday, over 300 armed white men, including members of white supremacist organizations such as the Knights of White Camellia & the Ku Klux Klan, attacked the Courthouse building. When the militia maneuvered a cannon to fire on the Courthouse, some of the black defenders fled while others surrendered.

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