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The Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society Miscellanea and Ephemeron
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- On April 13, 1873, over 100 black men were killed in Colfax Louisiana following disputes over the results of a local election the previous fall. The election had been very close and the departing Democratic governor of Louisiana had appointed winners from his own party, but when the administration changed with a new governor in the spring, the Republican contenders were appointed instead, a white man named Shaw and a black man named Register. The two men tried to take their offices at the Colfax courthouse, and the white population of the area responded with rumors of racial rioting and uprisings; when Register, Shaw, and their adherents refused to leave the courthouse, a small army of white men surrounded the building and eventually forced the occupants out and massacred them. Others who fled the courthouse were captured later that day and also killed. [more]
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