Restricted Colfax Massacre Monument

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There is a new monument near the site of the Colfax Massacre in Louisiana which happened during Reconstruction. The monument replaces and contextualizes previous markers and monuments:

A deadly massacre of the post-slavery era finally gets a suitable memorial

The new memorial lists the names of 57 Black people killed in the Colfax Massacre in 1873.

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