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, ...

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.

COLFAX, La. – The shiny new black marble monument dedicated to the victims of the Colfax Massacre sits next to the railroad tracks on Eighth Street, not far from where the atrocity took place on April ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ALEXANDRIA, La. (WNTZ) – 150 Easter ...

COLFAX, La. (WVUE) - A new memorial recently was unveiled in the small, Grant Parish town of Colfax. It marks a racial massacre that occurred there on Easter Sunday in 1873, in which nearly 100 Black ...

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 ...

Two articles on the front page of my Sunday paper juxtapose two sad and shocking stories. The first cites the unveiling of a memorial honoring victims of the 1873 Colfax Massacre, where as many as 150 ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Louisiana Public Broadcasting and Riverside Films are producing a documentary film on The Colfax Massacre that occurred in April 1873. The National Endowment for the Arts ...

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 ...