On April 13 1837, a mob of armed white men attacked the courthouse in Colfax, Louisiana, where a group of Black men had gathered to protect their right to vote, killing 80 or more people. This story ...

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 ...

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. — 150 years to the day after a rampaging White mob slaughtered dozens of Black men in this tiny central Louisiana town in what was the bloodiest single-day racial massacre in the ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

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 ...