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 ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Exactly 150 years after a violent massacre left dozens of Black people dead, the small Louisiana town where it happened is ...

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.

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 — Jesse McKinney was fixing a fence in the yard of his cabin near this central Louisiana town in early April 1873, when a group of White men rode up on horseback. The men surrounded McKinney, a ...

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 ...

Exactly 150 years after a violent massacre left dozens of Black people dead, the small Louisiana town where it happened is honoring its victims with a new memorial replacing a racist historical marker ...