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 ...

The Colfax Massacre was the bloodiest atrocity of the post-slavery era. According to estimates, 57 to 80 Black people died in the tragedy. Blacks residents of Colfax, Louisiana gather the dead and ...

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.

The Colfax courthouse is where the massacre took place, barricaded within were 80 or more Black people defending Republican officeholders (who escaped, but were killed before leaving La.).

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 ...

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.

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 ...

COLFAX, Louisiana — Two years ago, the U.S. military had an embarrassment on its hands: A stockpile of aging explosives blew up at a former Army ammunition plant in Minden, Louisiana, sending a ...

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 ...