Colfax in Grant Parish, Louisiana — The American South (West South Central)

Colfax Riot

By Richard E. Miller, August 6, 2010 1. Colfax Riot Marker

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Colfax Riot. . . On this site occurred the Colfax Riot in which three white men and 150 negroes were slain. This event on April 13, 1873, marked the end of carpetbag misrule in the South.

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By Richard E. Miller, August 6, 2010 2. Colfax Riot Marker at the Grant Parish courthouse

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(Submitted on August 19, 2010, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.)

(Submitted on August 19, 2010, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.)

(Submitted on August 22, 2010, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.)

(Submitted on August 23, 2010, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.)

Erected to the memory of the Heroes:

Stephen Decatur Parish, James West Hadnot, Sidney Harris -

who fell in the Colfax Riot fighting for white supremacy, April 13, 1873.

(Submitted on February 8, 2014, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.)

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"Colfax Massacre"; freedmen; Wikipedia 3. "The Louisiana Murders—Gathering The Dead And Wounded" published in Harper's Weekly May 10, 1873

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