The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror and the Death of Reconstruction by LeeAnna Keith

The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror and the Death of Reconstruction

LeeAnna Keith

219 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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On Easter Sunday, 1873, in the tiny hamlet of Colfax, Louisiana, more than 150 members of an all-black Republican militia, defending the town's courthouse, were slain by an armed force of rampaging white supremacists. The most deadly incident of r...

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