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  Colfax massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On April 13, 1873, in Colfax, Louisiana, a group of white men (including members of the White League and the Ku Klux Klan) clashed with members of Louisiana's almost all-fl state militia at the local courthouse.
The massacre would show that much work still needed to be done with Reconstruction, as well as eventually lead to a Supreme Court case, United States v.
He would later serve as one of the government's chief witnesses against those who were indicted for the massacre.
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 Colfax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Colfax Massacre, an 1873 incident in Colfax, Louisiana
Schuyler Colfax, politician and 17th Vice President of the United States (1869-1873); many of the U.S. locations are named for this statesman
The Colfax, a 125-foot Coast Guard cutter; transferred to the Navy in 1917 and served in the vicinity of Baltimore during World War I; returned to the Coast Guard in 1919
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 Colfax, Louisiana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Colfax is a town located in Grant Parish, Louisiana.
Both the town and parish were founded in 1869, the parish named for President Ulysses S. Grant and the town for his vice president, Schuyler Colfax.
The town is of historical importance due to the Colfax Massacre of 1873.
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 List of massacres : search word
'''Massacres''' are individual events of deliberate mass killing, especially of noncombatant civilians or other innocents.
The term may refer to individual, civil, or military acts and is often characterised as having distinct political significance in shaping subsequent events.
However as the left the city the men were immediately massacred and 200 women and children were held in the Bibi-Ghar (House of the Women) where they were killed on July 15, 1857.
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 American Experience | Ulysses S. Grant | People & Events | The Colfax Massacre
On April 13, 1873, violence erupted in Colfax, Louisiana.
While the worst violence occurred in Colfax, other incidents were sparked in Coushatta, when the White League murdered six Republicans, and in New Orleans, when thirty were killed and one hundred more wounded.
After Colfax, the federal government convicted only three whites for the murders.
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 List of massacres - Internet-Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Massacres are individual events of mass killing of civilians or noncombatants, almost always characterised as having distinct political significance in shaping subsequent events.
Note that the figure for deaths is usually an estimate, and is frequently contested.
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 Colfax LA (LA) Detailed Profile - real estate info, jobs, weather, schools, crime, ...
Colfax LA (LA) Detailed Profile - real estate info, jobs, weather, schools, crime,...
The town of Colfax is the parish seat of Grant Parish, in the US state of Louisiana.
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 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Colfax massacre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 H-Net Review: J. Morgan Kousser on Reconstruction and Black Suffrage: Losing the Vote in ...
When the largest peacetime massacre of African-Americans in nineteenth-century America took place on Easter Sunday, 1873, in Colfax, Louisiana, the U.S. government possessed the tools to prosecute the murderers.
And the law clearly applied to the "Colfax Massacre" of at least 105 fl men, about 50 of whom where executed after surrendering to the well-organized group of about 300 armed whites, because the massacre was the direct result of a disputed election.
Both the Colfax Massacre and the Lexington poll tax issue concerned local government, and it is difficult to see how they would have been affected by a law growing out of
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 Abebooks Search Results - Colfax
Colfax and Fowler demonstrate how they merge the country house style with romantic 18th Century elegance.
It analyzes key trials of people charged with racially inspired murders-from the Colfax Massacre to the murder of Medgar Evers to the dragging death of James Byrd, Jr.
ACROSS THE CONTINENT: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States with Speaker Colfax.
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 Colfax, Louisiana (LA) @USA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 Black Facts Online: Colfax Massacre
Colfax Massacre, Easter Sunday morning, Grant Parish, Louisiana.
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