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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho heard of the Colfax Massacre?
This is a new one to me, but it's a bad one.
Easter Sunday, 1873 around 300 hundred KKK, White League, and ex-Confederate troops attacked a successful Black settlement in Louisiana. Up to 150 were murdered, with only 3 whites killed.
https://goodfaithmedia.org/the-shameful-easter-massacre-you-never-heard-about/
niyad
(113,701 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)How little we know about the truth of this nations real history. Thank you for sharing this with us.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)sir pball
(4,764 posts)The convictions from the massacre were overturned by SCOTUS in United States v. Cruukshank - the case where the Justices decided that the Bill.of Rights was explicitly *not* incorporated - that did not apply to States nor private individuals, but rather only the Federal government.
Flowing from that ruling, it was also found that since the Federal government wasn't involved, Federal law had no force - leaving the newly freed Black populace at the mercy of State courts and legislatures. I don't need to get into how that worked out....
Not exactly our nations brightest moment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Cruikshank