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Bonded through atrocity, men set out to correct record of Louisiana's Colfax Massacre
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCOLFAX, La. – The shiny new black marble monument dedicated to the victims of the Colfax Massacre...
Louisiana town erects monument to pay homage to victims of bloody Colfax Massacre
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Colfax Massacre was the deadliest atrocity of the Reconstruction Era in the South. A new...
Colfax Massacre descendants talk about racial healing on both sides
The Town Talk via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe ancestors of the Rev. Avery Hamilton and Dean Woods were on opposite sides of the Colfax...
A deadly massacre of the post-slavery era finally gets a suitable memorial
NBC News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoExactly 150 years after a violent massacre left dozens of Black people dead, the small Louisiana...
On This Day, April 13: White supremacists kill dozens in Colfax massacre
United Press International via Yahoo News· 2 months agoOn April 13, 1873, a mob of former Confederate soldiers and Ku Klux Klan members killed dozens of...